EMMA DENLY
Emma graduated in 2016 with a BA in Acting from RADA, where she was a Wall Trust Scholar.
She most recently performed in Jonathan Humphrey’s production of The Rivals at the Watermill, Newbury, where she starred as Lydia, earning great reviews including from The Stage.
Last year Emma’s screen credits included Golden Girl (London Film School), Christmas Hacks (Baldy Productions) and aftermath, a short film directed by Maisie Robinson. She also performed at Shakespeare’s Globe in James Wallace’s production of The Woman In The Moon and in several of their ongoing Read Not Dead series, and starred as Gwendolen in Richard Fitch’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest at Theatr Clwyd.
She most recently performed in Jonathan Humphrey’s production of The Rivals at the Watermill, Newbury, where she starred as Lydia, earning great reviews including from The Stage.
Last year Emma’s screen credits included Golden Girl (London Film School), Christmas Hacks (Baldy Productions) and aftermath, a short film directed by Maisie Robinson. She also performed at Shakespeare’s Globe in James Wallace’s production of The Woman In The Moon and in several of their ongoing Read Not Dead series, and starred as Gwendolen in Richard Fitch’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest at Theatr Clwyd.
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Emma also writes for theatre and television and most recently her play Very Nearly Totally F*cked was produced at the RADA Festival, directed by Michael Davies. Emma holds a first class degree in English Literature from the University of Warwick and has had three of her plays produced previously. A strong, classically trained singer (mezzo-soprano), Emma has a rich, assured voice that works very well on radio and for voiceovers, her most recent radio credit being a dramatisation of “Henry I”, based on a play of the same name in which she performed as Henry’s wife and queen, Edith-Matilda.
Emma playing Lydia Languish in The Rivals at The Watermill Theatre, Newbury.
**** “the tangled aristocratic love story is kept engaging by the excellent performances of the central couple, Lydia Languish (Emma Denly) and Captain Jack Absolute (Ncuti Gatwa). The flirting between the stroppy, capricious pair is convincing and cynicism-dispelling, especially after the interval when Denly ramps up the pouty, disgruntled socialite act.” Rosemary Waugh for The Stage
***** “Lydia Languish (recent RADA graduate Emma Denly) [is] far from being a complete air-headed flibbertigibbet, in an interpretation that […] was as much about empowering the women as it was about reducing them to mere figures of fun.” David Woodward for Spy In The Stalls
***** “Lydia Languish (recent RADA graduate Emma Denly) [is] far from being a complete air-headed flibbertigibbet, in an interpretation that […] was as much about empowering the women as it was about reducing them to mere figures of fun.” David Woodward for Spy In The Stalls
Emma playing Gwendolen in The Importance Of Being Earnest at Theatr Clwyd (photos © Marc Brenner).
**** “superb… [her] corseted upbringing hides bodily stirrings” Roger Foss for The Stage
***** "“Emma Denly plays Gwendolen with tremendous charm, and is consistently, and humorously, impassioned – making it very much impossible not to feel deeply enamoured of her immaculate characterisation.”
***** "“Emma Denly plays Gwendolen with tremendous charm, and is consistently, and humorously, impassioned – making it very much impossible not to feel deeply enamoured of her immaculate characterisation.”
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