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Trained
Bristol University Drama Department and began her career in Children’s
Theatre and TIE for Brian Way at Theatre Centre and then with the newly
formed TIE company at The Duke’s Playhouse Lancaster.
She then spent a year in Edmonton
Alberta Canada working as an actress writer and director for Edmonton
Experimental Theatre and The Citadel Theatre. On her return to England she worked once more for
Theatre Centre directing a primary schools tour.
After a
break of several years from performing, during which time she began writing
plays for children, published by Samuel French and several series for BBC
Schools Radio, she returned to acting.
Since then
her theatre work has included West End, Regional Repertory, Touring, both
nationally and internationally and Fringe
She has a
particular interest in New Writing and has done rehearsed readings and
workshops for Soho Theatre, Actors Centre New Play Ensemble, Script2 Stage
and The Arcola Theatre.
She has
just finished playing the Nurse in the UK tour of Equus with Simon Callow and Alfie Allen. Other recent theatre includes
Zofia, a feisty Polish immigrant worker in the tour of On Saturdays This Bed Is Poland for New
Perspectives Theatre Company. “The actors get right into the skins and
accents of these well-drawn characters -Fiz Marcus in a fireball of a
performance as Zofia”
Gertrude
Stein in My Matisse at Jermyn Street Theatre
“The strongest voice in Ginsberg’s play is
that of Gertrude Stein, played as a
brilliant, vivid caricature by Fiz Marcus”
Louise,
the French maid, in Private Lives at The
Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke. “It is Fiz Marcus, playing the harassed
French maid, who gets most of the laughs. Her accent demeanour, timing and antics are perfect to
bring this larger –than –life character to life”
Some of
Fiz’s favourite roles include Galina Brezhnev in the tour of Red
Princess for Red Shift, “Fiz Marcus’s
portrayal of Galina is superb moving between the little girl she was and
the drunken old hag she has become”
Natasha
Gladkov in A Man With Connections which
began as a late night performance at
Chichester Festival Theatre and then transferred to the Finborough Theatre
in London & subsequently The Arches Glasgow. “An exceptional
performance from Marcus in particular makes the anguished attitude shifts
wholly believable
Mata Hari
in Lovers & Lies her own one -woman show
which toured in the UK, Czech Republic & The Netherlands “There is
an appealing directness about this performance which takes it beyond the
narcissistic realms of so many one person shows – a clear restrained and
unforcedly sensual performance”
Deborah in
A Kind Of Alaska at The Orange Tree. “Fiz
Marcus has an amazing face and deportment and this is a mesmerizing
performance ”
Other
theatre credits include: Beryl Fletcher in Star Quality -West End & No1 Tour.
Ruth/Naomi/Miriam/Deborah in Arnold Wesker’s one woman show Four
Portraits - Of Mothers at the Bridewell. Rehearsed
readings of Release at The Tristan Bates Theatre & The
Hidden Winter for Soho Theatre and workshop productions of Lorenzaccio at The Young Vic and The Wedding for the RNT Studio.
In 2000 she was a member of the Chichester Festival Theatre Company
playing Harriet in A Small Family Business,
Natasha Gladkov in A Man With Connections
and Madame X in The Stronger and
understudying on Heartbreak House. She also appearing in rehearsed
readings of The Dark Tower, The White Chateau, Chichester 2000 Tales, and a promenade performance of All Sorts of Ayckbourn. Earlier work includes All Passion Spent (Tour), Haven (Bridewell) The
Homecoming (Comedy Theatre), Small Objects
Of Desire (Soho Theatre Company) Daisy Pulls
It Off (Leatherhead), Deborah in Happy
Family (Farnham )
On Television recently she has been seen in Jekyll, The Amazing Mrs
Pritchard and Mayo playing a variety of
northern slappers! Other TV
includes Wild West, Life & Death, The Bill, and The Sharp End.
She can also be seen as one half of the
Wedding Dancing Couple in the Revels
Ident for the new series of You’ve Been
Framed
Her Film
work includes a scantily clad Mrs Gutterman in
Leon The Pig Farmer, a neurotic Jewish housewife in Suzie Gold, the uptight Teresa in The Penalty King, a French lawyer in A Bout De Truffe, the devious Lady Oxford in Oxford Park, and the lead role of Hazel Ridgeley in Out of Breath. She will shortly
be seen in Swinging With The Finkels playing
Heidla, yet another neurotic Jewish wife!
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