Early life

Born in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Campbell is the daughter of an airline pilot. She was educated at Francis Bacon Grammar School, St Albans, and at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Her repertory theatre experience includes the Palace Theatre, Watford, Birmingham Rep and the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow.

Career

Campbell is known for her starring role as Vera Brittain in the BBC's television dramatisation of Testament of Youth (1979), for which she received Best Actress awards from the British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) and the Broadcasting Press Guild Award.

Her first BAFTA nomination, Campbell earned the previous year for Eileen Everson, a very different character, opposite Bob Hoskins in Dennis Potter's television serial Pennies from Heaven (1978). Campbell's one other role in a work by Potter is as Janet in Rain on the Roof (1980).

Stage

Campbell is stage performer of considerable note and great range. She has been twice a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. At the RSC in 1982, she played Nora Helmer in Adrian Noble's memorable production of Ibsen's A Doll's House (for which she was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival). In that same season, she also appeared as Diana in All's Well That Ends Well.

She returned to the RSC in the 1992-94 season, playing Lady Macbeth to Sir Derek Jacobi's lead in Noble's controversial production of Macbeth; Beatrice-Joanna in The Changeling; Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Natasha in Misha's Party. She worked at the Royal National Theatre: playing as a junior member of the company in 1975, as Freda in Sir Peter Hall's Old Vic production of John Gabriel Borkman (starring Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Dame Wendy Hiller) and as Maggie in W. S. Gilbert's Engaged; in 1995, as Lady Politic Would-Be in Matthew Warchus's Volpone; and in 2003 as Dotty Otley in the NT's touring (and London) revival of Noises Off.

Campbell's other stage performances in London have encompassed the classics as well as new plays; they include You Never Can Tell (Lyric, 1979); Miss Julie (1983) in the title role; Little Eyolf (1985) as Asta; The Daughter-in-Law (1985) as Minnie; The Sneeze (a Chekhov selection) (1988) in various roles; Betrayal (1991) as Emma; The Strip (1995) as Loretta; Some Sunny Day (1996) as Emily; The Seagull (1997) as Arkadina; Passion (2000) as Nell; and Life After George (2002) as Beatrix.

In provincial theatre, she has appeared in: The Country Wife (Manchester Royal Exchange) as Margery Pinchwife; The Constant Wife (Theatr Clwyd) as Constance; A Streetcar Named Desire (Leicester Haymarket) as Blanche (for which she received a Regional Theatre Best Actress award); and So Long Life (touring production) as Wendy.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	McVicar	Sheila McVicar
1980	Hawk the Slayer	Sister Monica
1981	Chariots of Fire	Jennie Liddell
1984	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Lady Alice Clayton
1985	The Shooting Party	Lady Aline Hartlip
2010	Tamara Drewe	Lucetta

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1974	Affairs of the Heart	Emma Gosselin
1975	Edward the King	Princess Beatrice
1975	Within These Walls	Susan Carpenter	Episode: Long Shadows
1976	Killers	Miss Duncan	Episode: "The Crumbles Murder"
1978	Pennies From Heaven	Eileen
1978	The Sweeny	Erica Taylor
1978	Lillie	Sarah Bernhardt
1979	Malice Aforethought	Madeleine Cranmere
1979	Testament of Youth	Vera Brittain
1981	The Seven Dials Mystery	Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent
1984	A Winter Harvest	Caroline Ashurst
1985	Absurd Person Singular	Eva Jackson
1986	Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage	Griselda Clement
1987	A Sort of Innocence	Elizabeth Fellowes
1990	Centrepoint	Maria Wearing
1990	Boon	Pamela Drake
1990	Inspector Morse	Sylvie Maxton	Episode: The Infernal Serpent
1991	Sherlock Holmes	Lady Frances Carfax	Episode: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
1992	The Secret Agent	Winnie Verloc
1992	Maigret	Aline Bauche
1996	Bramwell	Emily Coxon
1997	The Mill on the Floss	Bessy Tulliver
1999	Wing and a Prayer	Louise McAllister
1999	A Touch of Frost	Diana Grey
2000	Monsignor Renard	Madeleine Claveau
2001	The Way We Live Now	Lady Carbury
2002	Foyle's War	Emily Gascoigne	Episode: "A Lesson in Murder"
2003	William and Mary	Molly Gilcrest
2005	To the Ends of the Earth	Lady Somerset
2005	Waking the Dead	Maureen Hunt	Episode: "Undertow"
2005	Funland	Valerie Hinchcliffe
2006	Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!	Louie Williams
2006	Dalziel and Pascoe	Jean Swainbank	Episode: Fallen Angel
2006	MI5	Deputy Prime Minister
2007	Peep Show	Penny Chapman
2008	Lewis	Valli Helm	Episode: "Music to Die For"
2008	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Lady Boynton	Episode: "Appointment with Death"
2010	The Sarah Jane Adventures	Ocean Waters	Episode: "The Vault of Secrets"
2011	Casualty	Miriam Turner
2012	Call the Midwife	Lady Browne
2013	Midsomer Murders	Vivian Stannington / Sandra MacKillop	Episodes: "The Sicilian Defense" (2013) and "Beyond the Grave" (2000)
2015	Doctor Foster	Helen Foster

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