Ciaran Madden

She appeared in more than 30 television series, teleplays, made-for-television movies, and television miniseries, including a starring performance in the miniseries A Married Man (1984) opposite Anthony Hopkins. She also had major roles in five feature films, including Gawain and the Green Knight (1973), the cult horror film The Beast Must Die (1974), Spy Story (1976) and Swing Kids (1993). She had originally trained at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford prior to enrolling at RADA. In the late 1990s she gave up acting and returned to painting, focusing on portraits, and received a diploma from the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London.

In 2001 she moved to Dorset with her second husband, Christian Tyler, whom she had married in 1987. Her previous husband, whom she had married in 1972, was John Patrick Scrivenor; they had a son born in late 1972.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1969 — W. Somerset Maugham — Isabel Longstaffe — "The Fall of Edward Barnard" • 1969 — Play of the Month — Adrienne — "The Marquise" • 1970 — The — Mary Hogarth — TV film • 1970 — ITV Sunday Night Theatre — Ophelia — "Hamlet" • 1971 — Sense and Sensibility — Marianne Dashwood — TV miniseries • 1974 — Bedtime Stories — Clare Rawley — "Sleeping Beauty" • 1974 — Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill — Gwendoline Churchill — "His Borrowed Plumes", "A Past and a Future" • 1976 — Star Maidens — Fidelia — "The End of Time" • 1976 — BBC Play of the Month — Alison Porter — "Look Back in Anger" • 1977 — BBC Play of the Month — Alithea — "The Country Wife" • 1977 — Jubilee — Karen Seyric — "An Hour in the Life..." • 1978 — Do You Remember? — Ellen — "Park People" • 1978 — Return of the Saint — Janie Lennox — "Signal Stop" • 1978 — Much Ado About Nothing — Hero — TV film • 1979 — My Son, My Son — Livia Vaynol — TV miniseries • 1979 — ITV Playhouse — Tina Styles — "Print Out" • 1981 — A — Jazz — TV miniseries • 1982 — The Agatha Christie Hour — Theo Darrell — "Magnolia Blossom" • 1983 — On the Razzle — Madame Knorr — TV film • 1983 — A — Claire Strickland — TV miniseries • 1984 — Oxbridge Blues — Rachel / Laura — "Similar Triangles", "Cheap Day" • 1984 — Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Body in the Library — Adelaide Jefferson — TV film • 1985–1987 — Drummonds — Mary Drummond — Main role • 1987 — Fortunes of War — Angela Hooper — TV miniseries • 1989 — The — Pamela — TV film • 1989 — Agatha Christie's Poirot — Lady Mayfield — "The Incredible Theft" • 1989 — The — Catherine — "These Foolish Things" • 1990 — TECX — Angela Kortenbach — "Rock a Buy Baby" • 1990 — Boon — Margery Keeverton — "Thicker Than Water" • 1991 — Van der Valk — Melanie van Hoorn — "A Sudden Silence" • 1991 — Casualty — Zoe Turner — "Humpty Dumpty", "Judgement Day" • 1992 — Maigret — Mme. Maigret — Regular role (season 1) • 1992 — Between the Lines — Sandra Urquhart — "Nobody's Fireproof", "The Chill Factor" • 1997 — Ivanhoe — Urfried — TV miniseries