Actor Biographies: Mrs Warren’s Profession

Name: Paola Dionisotti

Training: The Drama Centre, London

Royal Lyceum Theatre credits include: Ghosts  

Theatre credits include:
Paola won Best Actress, Evening Standard Awards and the Stage Award for Best Actress, Edinburgh Festival in 2000 for her performance as Mill Lavarello in Further Than the Furthest Thing (Tron Theatre/National Theatre).  

In seasons with the Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre she appeared in: Seven Deadly Sins, A Streetcar Named Desire, Plays by Gertrude Stein (Citizens’);The Iceman Cometh, Pillars of the Community, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, Moscow Gold, Sore Throats, Heresies, The Canterbury Tales (RSC); Camino Real (RSC at the Young Vic); The Wandering Jew, Countrymania, Square Rounds, Richard II, The Machine Wreckers (RNT)  

Other theatre over the years includes: Driver Painter (New End Theatre); Pyrenees (Tron Theatre/Paines Plough/Chocolate Factory); The Entertainer (Liverpool Playhouse); When We Are Rich (Nuffield Theatre); Drink, Dance, Laugh and Lie (Bush Theatre); Holy Mothers (Royal Court/Ambassador Theatre); The Trojan Women, Vassa (The Gate); Britannicus (Crucible Theatre); On the Verge (Birmingham Rep/Sadlers Wells)  

Television credits include:
Spinechillers, Fergus’ Wedding, McCready and Daughter, Harbour Lights, Maisie Raine, Peak Practice, Just William, The Gospels, House of Elliot, Ruth Rendell – The Veiled One, First Among Equals, The Monocled Mutineer, They Never Do What You Want, A Murder is Announced, The Young Ones, A Fine Romance, Fame is the Spur, Minor Complications, and three series of Forever Green.  

Film credits include:
Loves Brother, Come and Go, Intimacy, The Titchbourne Claimant, Vigo, A Passion for Life, Les Miserables, The Sailor’s Return.