Carolina Valdés
Acting
Biography
Carolina is a performer, writer and theatre maker. She trained at the Col.legi de Teatre in Barcelona and at the École Internationale de Théâtre de Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where she met Joseph Alford. She became Co-Artistic Director of ‘theatre O’ in 1999. She has co-created and performed in all of the company’s shows. She also has a BA Hons degree in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. Aside from theatre O, she has worked extensively as an actor and Movement Director and done work in theatre, opera, film and television. Her longstanding collaborations include her work with Phyllida Lloyd in the Shakespeare Trilogy project, film maker Daria Martin, writer and theatre maker Jonathan Young, and composer Melanie Wilson. Carolina has also an ongoing involvement in education and has taught throughout the years at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and Guildford Drama School amongst others. Alongside this, she has performed for the past eight years with company ATT using drama to explore behaviour in the work place and for around 10 years she translated comic books and graphic novels from English and French into Spanish.
Known For
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Call the Midwife
A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
Killing Eve
Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kindness of others to discover his true purpose in life.
I Swear
Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries into long forgotten cold cases with little prospect of success. Following another reprimand for his unorthodox police methods, Grace is walking a career tightrope and risks being moved from the job he loves most.
Grace
A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, they find themselves drawn to each other and are thrown into rivalries within the court of King Louis XIV.
A Little Chaos
Phyllida Lloyd’s final installment of the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy concludes with an all-female version of The Tempest starring Harriet Walter as Prospero. This captivating reimagining explores themes of freedom and justice in the context of a women’s prison.
The Tempest
The first installment of Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female Shakespeare Trilogy sees Harriet Walter take on the role of Brutus, who wrestles with his moral conscience over the murder of Julius Caesar.
Julius Caesar
Harriet Walter takes the lead in the second installment of the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Featuring a diverse company of women, this unique interpretation combines both parts of Shakespeare’s history plays about King Henry IV and his son Prince Hal.