Souad Faress’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro British actress
Is Actor
Stage actor
Film actor
From Ghana
Syria
Ireland
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender female
Birth

25 March 1948, Accra, Ghana

Age 72 years
Star sign Aries
Residence London, UK
Education
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
City Literary Institute
Notable Works
Game of Thrones  
The Archers  
Claudius  
Blake’s 7  
My Beautiful Laundrette  
Sixth Happiness  
Coronation Street  
The Sarah Jane Adventures  
The Mad Woman in the Attic  
Casualty  
No Angels  

Souad Adel Faress (born 25 March 1948) is a Ghanaian stage, radio, television and film actress based in United Kingdom. She is best known for her portrayal of the solicitor Usha Gupta, in the long-running BBC Radio 4 serial The Archers and for her role as the High Priestess of the Dosh Khaleen in the sixth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones.

Biography

Faress was born in 1948 in Accra, Ghana, to Irish and Syrian parents. She studied drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and lives in London. She has been exploring playwriting as a medium since before 2004. Faress completed a writing course at City Literary Institute adult education college. Her other skills include dancing, horse riding, cricket and yoga.

Career

Faress appeared in two episodes of the BBC serial I, Claudius (1976) as a slave girl (shouting fire) and as a dancer who at Messalina’s (second and bigamous) marriage party realises troops are coming to arrest them. In another early BBC appearance, she played the character Selma in the Blake’s 7 episode ‘Horizon’. Since then, Faress has had substantial roles in films such as My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and Sixth Happiness (1997), as well as much stage work around the UK.

In October 2001 she appeared briefly in Coronation Street as Dev Alahan’s mother Umila.

Souad Faress also appeared as the Old Rani in The Sarah Jane Adventures serial The Mad Woman in the Attic in October 2009.

In October 2014, it was announced that Faress would perform in Hurried Steps, Sharon Wood’s translation of “Passi Affrettati by Dacia Maraini. The play’s narratives were mainly sourced from Amnesty International, the subject matter including rape, honour killings, sex trafficking and other issues of violence against women.

Between 2010 and 2011 she played Jay Faldren’s grandmother, Maryam Shakiba, in Casualty.

Faress appeared in an episode of popular nursing drama No Angels as lead character, Anji Mittel’s aunt Di. Faress appeared briefly as a hospital doctor in “The Dead of Jericho”, the first episode of Inspector Morse.

In 2016 she joined the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 6 as the High Priestess of the Dosh Khaleen. Faress will also be appearing in ITV drama Brief Encounters, “a loose adaptation of Ann Summers CEO Jacqueline Gold’s memoirs, Good Vibrations.”

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