Diana Quick

Diana Quick has appeared on stage at the RSC, RNT, as well as on tour and in the West End; she is particularly keen on new writing for the theatre and screen. On tv she was recently seen in the Chelsea Detective and is probably best remembered as Julia in Granada TV's perennial favourite Brideshead Revisited. This year she has made a short film about a woman recovering from coercive control by her son, Amaretti, which was shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and plays the mother of a wizard in Practical Magic 2.Her family memoir A Tug on the Thread, exploring her father's roots in colonial India, was published byVirago, and for 6 years she was director of the Aldeburgh Documentary Festival. She is a regular broadcaster and loves to share poetry and stories in live performance.