Janie Dee on the tough art of acting

11th October 2007

 

INTERVIEW: JANIE DEE

The actress, currently playing Joy Gresham to Charles Dance’s CS Lewis in William Nicholson’s Shadowlands at Wyndham’s Theatre, talks frankly to Philip Fisher about the challenge of the role – and her Olivier-winning career.

I sought a singing teacher in Rome, learnt to sing – and came back to England with a ‘voice’.