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Martina Laird (born 1971) is a Trinidadian British actress of stage, film and television.




Early life and education


Martina Laird was born in 1971 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Her interest in drama began early, when she was seven years old, and from the age of 13 she studied with such local luminaries as Beryl McBurnie, and regularly attended performances at the Little Carib Theatre.
At the age of 17, Laird went to England, having won a national scholarship to study French at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and she did drama as part of her degree course. Having told her parents of her acting ambitions at the age of 20, on the advice of Derek Walcott, who was a family friend, Laird went on to attend the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.




Career


After beginning her acting career on the stage, she landed a role in the BBC TV drama Casualty, most memorably playing the character Comfort for several years. She also featured in other popular television series, including Holby City and EastEnders.
Among her notable stage credits are as Sophia in Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, directed by Michael Buffong, in a 2012 production at the Royal National Theatre, and Marcus Gardley's The House that Will Not Stand at the Tricycle Theatre (2014).
She performed in seven Shakespeare plays over two years in 2016 and 2017: The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Henry IV, Coriolanus, and All's Well That Ends Well.
In 2019, Laird appeared in the August Wilson play King Hedley II, alongside Lenny Henry, at Stratford East.
In October 2023, she featured in a revival of Mustapha Matura's play Meetings at the Orange Tree Theatre.




Awards


Laird has won a Screen Nation Award and a Michael Elliot Trust Award.




Filmography






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The White Devil, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1996
Three Hours After Marriage, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1996–1997
Troilus and Cressida, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1996–1997
Breath Boom, Royal Court Theatre, 2000
The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder, Royal National Theatre, 2007
Bianca in Othello, Donmar Warehouse, London, 2007–2008
Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, Royal National Theatre, 2012
The House that Will Not Stand, Tricycle Theatre, 2014
All's Well That Ends Well, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, 2018
Shebeen, Stratford East, 2018
King Hedley II, Stratford East, 2019
15 Heroines – Jermyn Street Theatre, 2020
Meetings, by Mustapha Matura, Orange Tree Theatre, 2023.




References






External links


Martina Laird official website
Martina Laird on Twitter
Martina Laird at IMDb
Ronald C. Emrit, "Martina Laird", Best of Trinidad.
"Advice to my Younger Self: Martina Laird" (video). Bush Theatre, 8 April 2020.

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