Overview
Rebecca Night (born Rebecca Hardwick; 13 July 1985) is an English actress who starred in the title role of James Hawes's BBC Four adaptation Fanny Hill. Night and Stockard Channing co-starred as Jessie and Thelma in Marsha Norman's Pulitzer-Prize-winning play 'night, Mother at Hampstead Theatre. On her performance, described by lead theatre critic Mark Shenton: "Night is like a young Julia Roberts... with natural stage chops... It turns out to be a riveting, revealing evening."
Background
Rebecca Night was born in Poole, Dorset. She attended Yarrells Preparatory School in Upton, Dorset where she took part in the annual musical productions, and later Parkstone Grammar School in Poole as well as Brownsea Open Air Theatre.
Night is a former member of the National Youth Theatre, where she appeared as Hero in Much Ado About Nothing and in Master & Margarita at the Lyric Hammersmith. She later trained at Rose Bruford College.
She is married to fellow actor Harry Hadden-Paton, whom she met while performing The Importance of Being Earnest. They have been married since 2010 and have three children together.
Career
Night came to prominence playing the title role in Andrew Davies' BBC production of Fanny Hill.
Nancy Banks-Smith in The Guardian wrote, "Her freshness disinfects her story. It is a delightful debut."
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