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Marilyn Ann Bird

Actor
Script Editor, Voiceover Artist, Film Lover.
Great Britain, East Midlands

About Me:

Where I work: justme
Technical Skills: BASSC Fight Performance Test Rapier and Dagger and Unarmed Combat

Casting Details:

Status: Professional

Appearance

Hair Colour: Brown
Eye Colour: Green
Ethnicity: White
Height: 165cm
Build: Medium
Playing Range: 35-45
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Union: Equity
Other Info:

A long-term member of the MissImp comedy improvisation troupe. BA (Joint Hons) French and German, University of Nottingham 1999. BASSC Fight Performance Test Rapier and Dagger and Unarmed Combat (Pass, 2006). Enhanced DBS clearance dated February 2018.

Skills

Native Accent: Non-regional English. Native Cumbrian.
UK Accents: Working class Northern. RP. Merseyside. Edinburgh. Birmingham. Kent.
US Accents: General American, New Jersey, Minnesota General Southern.
International Accents: French, German, Eastern European, Australian, Spanish.

Locations:

Based In: Nottingham
Country of Origin: Britain
Willing to work in: Britain and abroad

Fun stuff:

Films I wish I had made:

Life of Brian, Singin' in the Rain, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Jojo Rabbit, Star Wars

I cried watching:

Truly, Madly, Deeply and anything in which a beloved animal dies.

I left the cinema during:

28 Days Later because I was so scared, but I came back from hiding in the toilets after twenty minutes.

Directors I love:

Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg (for the Indiana Jones films), Nick Park, Edgar Wright, Taika Waititi

Actors I admire:

Alan Rickman, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Simon Pegg

Writers I Respect:

Taika Waititi

My desert island discs:

Someone Like You, Walk Me Home, 9 to 5.

Books I have given my friends:

Too many to count - as John Ruskin said "A man who has books is never without friends."

My death row meal:

My mum's phenomenal steak and kidney pie.

The best thing I own:

My partner's heart.