Actress Lou Gish, dead at 35
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Actress Lou Gish Dies After Cancer Fight, Aged 35
Actress Lou Gish passed away in the early hours of this morning
(Monday, 20 February 2006) after a long battle with cancer, at the age
of 35. Her death comes less than a year after that of her mother, the
actress Sheila Gish, who was also a cancer victim (See News, 11 Mar
2005).
The daughter of Sheila Gish and actor-director Denis Lawson, Lou Gish
was born on 27 May 1970. She was raised in London and originally saw
herself as an artist rather than an actress. She trained in Camberwell
and went on to gain a BA Honours at the Camberwell School of Art.
However, a role in a fringe play in Paddington saw her land an agent,
and this convinced her to follow in her family's thespian footsteps.
Over the course of her career she appeared on both stage and screen.
Gish's last stage appearance was last summer as a "deliciously
malevolent Goneril" to David Warner's Lear in Steven Pimlott's
production of King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre, where she also
appeared in the 1999 revival of Easy Virtue. In London, she was most
recently seen in last year's production of Tejas Verdes at the Gate,
directed by Thea Sharrock.
Gish's other stage credits included: Design for Living (Donmar
Warehouse and West End), Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the
Eunuchs (Hampstead and West End), Marlene (tour and West End), Les
Parents Terribles (National), Look Back In Anger (Bristol Old Vic), The
Duchess of Malfi (Salisbury Playhouse), The Talented Mr Ripley (Palace
Theatre, Watford), The Slow Approach of Night (Arts Threshold Theatre)
and Forget Herostratus (White Bear).
On film, Gish appeared in Bent for Channel 4 Films and Eight for Eight
Thirty for NFTS, which won the 1994 Short Film Festival Award. On
television, she has been seen in Wire in the Blood, Without Motive and
The Vice for ITV, Coupling and Hope and Glory for the BBC, Microsoap
for the BBC and Disney (which won the 1999 BAFTA and RTS award for Best
Children's Drama Series), Holding the Baby II for Granada, Game On
for Hatrick and the BBC and Dead at Thirty for Channel 4. She has also
had roles in EastEnders, New Tricks, Casualty, The Playground, Doctors
and Shadow Play and, on radio, in I'll Find You and Les Parents
Terribles.
Her agent, Peter Brooks of CAM, told Whatsonstage.com today:
"Speaking for myself and all at CAM, we are desperately sad today."
Alan Finch, executive director of Chichester Festival Theatre, added:
"We are shocked and saddened by Lou's death. She was a wonderful
actress and was tremendously brave, returning to Chichester to perform
in King Lear last summer after the then recent death of her mother. Our
thoughts are with her family at this sad time."
Hyfler/Rosner
<deb...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> 20th February 2006 - What's on Stage News
>
> Actress Lou Gish Dies After Cancer Fight, Aged 35
>
>
> Actress Lou Gish passed away in the early hours of this
> morning
> (Monday, 20 February 2006) after a long battle with
> cancer, at the age
> of 35. Her death comes less than a year after that of her
> mother, the
> actress Sheila Gish, who was also a cancer victim (See
> News, 11 Mar
> 2005).
Well, that really sucks. I distinctly remember posting her
mother's obits, didn't even have to check. For some reason,
it made an impression on me, possibly because Ewan McGregor
is her nephew. And I guess, Lou's cousin.
http://www.cft.org.uk/image_library/18/27/180.gif
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/06/20/btgish20.xml
bway...@gmail.com
Lou Gish was wonderful and appealing on COUPLING as Julia, the
boss/girlfriend of the hapless Jeff.
-Tim
Brigid Nelson
>20th February 2006 - What's on Stage News
>
>Actress Lou Gish Dies After Cancer Fight, Aged 35
>
>
>On film, Gish appeared in Bent for Channel 4 Films and Eight for Eight
>Thirty for NFTS, which won the 1994 Short Film Festival Award. On
>television, she has been seen in Wire in the Blood, Without Motive and
>The Vice for ITV, Coupling and Hope and Glory for the BBC, Microsoap
>for the BBC and Disney (which won the 1999 BAFTA and RTS award for Best
>Children's Drama Series), Holding the Baby II for Granada, Game On
>for Hatrick and the BBC and Dead at Thirty for Channel 4. She has also
>had roles in EastEnders, New Tricks, Casualty, The Playground, Doctors
>and Shadow Play and, on radio, in I'll Find You and Les Parents
>Terribles.
>
Does anyone here know which episode(s) of coupling she was in. ?
brigid
Brigid Nelson
Thank you, I wondered if that was she. One of my favorite episodes is
the one where Geoff loses the key.
brigid