The Railway Children

Amy Noble studied Modern Languages at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Most recently Amy played the role of Polyxena in After Troy directed by Alex Clifton on tour; Juliet in Romeo And Juliet and the leading role in Rapunzel Or The Magic Pig (both for Creation Theatre Company). Other Theatre Credits include The Water When It Burns (Hampstead); The Real Thing (Salisbury Playhouse); Chains and The Woman Hater (Orange Tree Theatre). Amy received a commendation in the 2007 Ian Charleson Awards for her performance in Chains. Theatre at university includes Pygmalion (ADC) and The Two Gentlemen Of Verona (Cambridge Arts Theatre). Television Credits include Britz; My Family; EastEnders (as semi-regular Lydia) and Holby City. Film Credits include Spiderhole and The Calculus Of Love.

Tim trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Theatre Credits include: War Horse (NT and West End); The Man of Mode (NT); Romeo and Juliet (Birmingham Rep/Touring Consortium); Scratch My City (Roundhouse); This Just In (Old Red Lion). Television Credits include: Five Daughters (BBC); Coming Up: The Spastic King (Channel 4). Film Credits include: In The Dark Half (BBC Films/South West Screen); A Congregation of Ghosts (Whitechapel Films). Radio Credits include: A Writer's France (Radio 4).

Grace trained at The Central School of Speech & Drama in Acting.
Theatre Credits include: To Kill A Mockingbird (York Theatre Royal/ Touring Consortium Theatre Company No. 1 UK Tour); The Railway Children (Waterloo Station); The Way of the World (Barons Court Theatre); Rentaghost (UK Tour); Steel Magnolias (Kenneth Moore Theatre); Cinderella (The Hazlitt Theatre/The Cresset Theatre).

Film Credits include: Young Woman in The Sleeper (Short Film); Emma in Wrong Love (Short Film).

Theatre Credits include:  Private Lives (Oxford Shakespeare Company); W for Banker (New End Theatre, Hampstead); The Ones that Flutter (Theatre 503); Romeo and Juliet (Battersea Arts Centre); Noises Off (Comedy Theatre); The Ecstatic Bible (Adelaide Festival); Ride Down Mt Morgan (Derby Playhouse); Look Back In Anger (Stray Theatre Company – tour); Frankenstein (York Theatre Royal); The Importance of Being Earnest (Drayton Court); Action (McOwen Theatre); Ondine (Shaw Theatre); The Last Nocturne, The Cure at Troy,  Orange Nell (Link Theatre, Holborn).

Television Credits include: New Tricks; Wallander; Taggart; Family Affairs; Family; Chambers; Poirot (Murder in Mesopotamia); The Bill; Dunroamin’; People of the Forest and Fortunes of War.

Film Credits include: Telstar; Two Days Nine Lives; Kicking Again; Sympathy With the Devil and Superwoman.

Radio Credits include: Separate Tables (BBC Radio 4); Britannia’s Wives (BBC Radio 4).

Theatre Credits include: Taking Steps (Orange Tree Theatre); Absurd Person Singular (No. 1 Tour); Greenwash (Orange Tree Theatre); The Late Edwina Black (No. 1 Tour); Much Ado About Nothing (Stafford Gatehouse); Peter Pan (Qdos); Ghost Train (No.1 Tour); Joking Apart (Theatre Royal, Windsor); Walk Hard (Tricycle); Chorus of Disapproval (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Private Fears in Public Places (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Around the World in Eighty Days (Liverpool Playhouse); Hamlet (Theatr Clywd); Death and the King's Horseman (Royal Exchange); Oedipus (The Scoop); Private Lives (Bolton Octagon); Way Upstream (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Beautiful People (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Pericles (Ludlow Festival Theatre); Angels in America (Sheffield Crucible); Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Mercury Theatre); The Winslow Boy (Mercury Theatre); Callas (Oldham Coliseum); Richard II (Oldham Coliseum).

Television Credits include: Anubis House (Lime Pictures); Holby City (BBC); Robin Hood (Tiger Aspect for BBC); Roman Mysteries (BBC); Casualty (BBC); Doctors (BBC); Coronation Street (Granada for ITV); The Bill (Thames Television for ITV).

Film Credits include: Enchanted April (BBC Films)

David was born in Birmingham and began his acting career while teaching in Canada and studying at Queens University Ontario. He played The Old Gentleman when the train first steamed into Waterloo with The Railway Children last year.

Other Theatre Credits include: Afterlife; Pillars of the Community; The Voysey Inheritance; Aristocrats; His Girl Friday; All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; Tales from Hollywood; St Joan; Antigone; Thro’ S J Perelman with Gun & Camera (National Theatre).

Count Baillet Letour in 1936 (Attic Theatre Company tour); The Sea (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Glengarry Glen Ross (Apollo); Billy Rice in The Entertainer (Old Vic); Uncle Matthew in Anne of Green Gables (Sadlers Wells); Herbert Wehner in Democracy (Wyndhams); Niels Bohr in Copenhagen (Duchess); All My Sons (Wyndhams); Jeff in Otherwise Engaged (Queens); Geoffrey in Absurd Person Singular (Vaudeville); Philip in The Philanthropist (Mayfair); Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals (Colchester); Rough Crossing (Leatherhead); Polonius in Hamlet (Nottingham Playhouse); Now There’s just the Three of Us (Open Space); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Canterbury); Mary Mary (Guildford).

Television Credits: Imagine, Vincent Van Gogh; Foyle’s War; Making News; Dr Who; Love Story; The Professionals; Minder; A Question of Guilt; The Avengers; The Troubleshooters.

Film Credits: The Tamarind Seed; Double Exposure; Nobody Runs Forever; The Reptile.

Despite a welcome return to her native Yorkshire this Spring to film Like Home, Elizabeth is utterly delighted to now be back at Waterloo reprising the role of Mrs Perks. Her previous work for York Theatre Royal includes The Railway Children (original London cast) and Pygmalion. Other Theatre Credits include Dr Faustus; Hostess of the Inn; Cyrano de Bergerac; Twelfth Night; Lady Macbeth Rewrites the Rule Book; Taming of the Shrew; Don Juan and Measure for Measure. Television Credits include EastEnders; Chariot Queen; Holby City; Slave Island and Blood of the Vikings. Film Credits include Boudicca (Indigo Films L.A.); Grand Central (Rebel Films N.Y.); and the multi award winning feature ‘The Tomb Robbery Papyrus’ (S.C.S.I. Pictures) which received honours at Cannes last year and at both the London and New York film festivals. A follow on film is currently in pre production and she will be flying out to Egypt in the New Year to begin principal photography. Elizabeth has been the Artistic Director of the highly successful theatre company LK Productions for eleven years.

Amanda trained at The Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre Credits include: Irene Roth in Crazy For You (Prince Edward); Lady Jacqueline in Me and my Girl (Adelphi); Clara in Pygmalion (Shaftesbury); Lady Fiona in Charlie Girl (Victoria Palace).

Repertory seasons at York, Pitlochry, Harrogate, Colchester and Leatherhead where roles include Marion in Secret Rapture, Amanda in Private Lives, Florence in The Odd Couple, Olga in Three Sisters, Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice and Annie in The Real Thing.

Musical theatre includes: Gypsy (Tessietura); Pirates of Penzance (Kate); Sweet Charity (Charity); Mack and Mabel (Iris); and Cowardy Custard. For the BBC she played Lucy Werner in Joyce in June.

Amanda is delighted to be back for a second season in The Railway Children!

Blair was born a Wulfrunian in 1965. His association with York Theatre Royal and its productions is a long and happy one.  Whilst studying Theatre and Art at St John’s University in York he worked backstage at the theatre and was spotted by The British Actors’ Theatre Company’s producers Edward and Peter Woodward and Kate O’Mara.  He toured with them for five years and continued to live in York until moving to London in 1997 for film work, again with the Woodward family in The House Of Angelo.

Other Film Credits include Transit; Things to do before you’re Thirty; Fate and Fortune;and The Gathering. Television Credits include Sold; Hustle; Wire in the Blood; Powers; Sir Gadabout the Worst Knight in the Land; Murder in Mind; Adrian Mole The Capuccino Years; Doctors; Little Devils; The Sooty Show; Coronation Street and Emmerdale.

For four years Blair was the onscreen owner of Lucky the Dog in the More Than adverts. 

Blair returned to the stage last year to play Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night at York Theatre Royal after an absence of some 6 years during which time he has helped his film producer wife bring up their daughter together. Other Theatre Credits include Of Mice and Men (Bolton Octagon); Bouncers (Sheffield Crucible); Having a Ball (Colchester Mercury); Gargling with Jelly & Bouncers (Hull Truck); Wars of The Roses, Madness of George Third, Noises off, The Rivals, Habeas Corpus, Bedevilled and Turn of the Screw (York); Strangers on a Train (Chester Gateway); Cyrano de Bergerac, Our Country’s Good (Nuffield Southampton); Grace Under Pressure (Old Red Lion); Maternity (Riverside Studios).

Blair is delighted to be part of this production here at Waterloo not least because at the end of the show he walks along the platform and gets another train home to Walton on Thames.

Mark trained at Drama Centre.

Theatre Credits include: The Railway Children (Waterloo Station); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Hampstead Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (RSC tour); Troilus and Cressida (Cheek by Jowl EU tour); Women of Troy (National Theatre); Cymbeline (Cheek by Jowl World tour).

Film Credits include: Atonement.

Francesca trained at The Arts Educational School, London on The Andrew Lloyd Webber Scholarship.

Theatre Credits include: Mamma Mia! (International tour); It's A Wonderful Life (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); Les Miserables (UK tour); Company (Donmar Warehouse/Albery Theatre directed by Sam Mendes); The Pirates of Penzance (UK tour); Joyful Noise (Hampstead Theatre); Gilbert & Sullivan Season (Gielgud Theatre); Hair (Spectrum Arena, Oslo); Oklahoma (UK tour); Dearly Beloved (Aldwych Theatre); Sweet Adeline (Barbican); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Edinburgh Festival). Francesca played Principal Boy for 4 years for Kenneth Alan Taylor at The Nottingham Playhouse.

Television Credits: Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps for The BBC Comedy Directors Course, Holby City (BBC).

Francesca appeared in two Theatre Royal, York pantomimes as a dancer in her early career and is delighted to be involved in The Railway Children.

Felicity trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre Credits include: Just a Game (Theatro Technis); Breathing Corpses at Theatre Souk (Theatre Delicatessen); The Government Inspector (LOST Theatre); Daisy Pulls It Off (LOST Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Tour); Gore (New Players Theatre).

Felicity is also a founder member of Stork Puppy Theatre Company.

She is delighted to be making her West End debut in The Railway Children.

James trained at LAMDA. His Theatre Credits include Exterminating Angels (Salford Quays and National Tour); Love Bites (Calder Bookshop Theatre); Pages: Promised Land (Union Theatre); Erics (Liverpool Everyman Playhouse) and The Wizard of Oz (Basingstoke Haymarket). As a child James also appeared in the West End as ‘Charlie Bates’ in Oliver and ‘Gavroche’ in Les Miserables.