Emily Woof

Born in the Gosforth area of Newcastle upon Tyne on the 16th October to Robert and Paula who were teachers. Emily was educated at Gosforth High School and St Katherines, Oxford where she obtained a degree in English. She decided to be an actress after seeing Jane Lapotaire at the RSC and the Theatre de Complicate in Paris, She trained with a physical theatre company in Paris then went on to a circus school where she learned the trapeze. She then combined music, dance, theatre and gymnastics in three one woman shows 'Sex', 'Sex II' and 'Sex III' in which she launched herself from an upright piano onto a flying trapeze. The shows won her a Fringe First Award at the 1992 Edinburgh Festival. With Patrick Marber she wrote her one-woman show 'Revolver'. In addition to performing her shows all round the world she's appeared on radio and television and has written a play for radio. Her television credits include 'Casualty', and 'Middlemarch' while on the big screen she was seen in 'The Full Monty', 'Photographing Fairies' and Velvet Goldmine'.