Lisa Diveney
{{short description|British actress|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2012}}
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| name = Lisa Diveney
| birth_name = Lisa Ann Diveney
| birth_date ={{birth year and age|1984}}England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
| birth_place = Newport, Wales
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| occupation = Actress
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| years_active = 2005–present
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Lisa Ann Diveney (born 1984) is a British actress, best known for playing Beth in the Only Fools and Horses spin-off The Green Green Grass. She has also appeared in an episode of BBC drama Call the Midwife.
Career
John Sullivan cast Diveney in the role of Beth in The Green Green Grass{{cite web|title='The Green Green Grass' Who's Who|url=http://www.greengreengrass.net/|publisher=Shazam Productions Ltd.|accessdate=8 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618144907/http://www.greengreengrass.net/|archive-date=18 June 2012|url-status=dead}} where she appeared in Series 1–3. She then went on to appear in Cleansed{{cite news|title=Sarah Kane's Cleansed & Phaedra's Love Revived|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/sep/04/theatre|publisher=What's on Stage|accessdate=20 October 2005|location=London|first=Michael|last=Billington|date=4 September 2004}} directed by Sean Holmes at the Arcola Theatre and in Michael Grandage's production of John Gabriel Borkman{{cite web|title=John Gabriel Borkman|url=http://www.donmarwarehouse.com/pl54cast.html|publisher=Donmar Warehouse|access-date=8 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215114208/http://donmarwarehouse.com/pl54cast.html|archive-date=15 December 2010|url-status=dead}} for the Donmar Warehouse where Ian McDiarmid and Penelope Wilton headed the cast.
In 2009 she played Young Enid in the biopic Enid{{cite web|title=BBC Four's 'Enid'|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nxkm8|publisher=BBC|accessdate=8 May 2012|archive-date=8 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120408133427/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nxkm8|url-status=live}} starring Helena Bonham Carter.
Diveney portrayed Colette in the premiere of Frank McGuinness' play Greta Garbo Came to Donegal{{cite news|title=Frank McGuinness premier 'Greta Garbo Came to Donegal' Review|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/legally-blonde-the-musical-savoy-londonbrtrilogy-bac-london-brgreta-garbo-came-to-donegal-tricycle-london-1870030.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/legally-blonde-the-musical-savoy-londonbrtrilogy-bac-london-brgreta-garbo-came-to-donegal-tricycle-london-1870030.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Independent|accessdate=17 January 2010|location=London|first=Kate|last=Bassett|date=17 January 2010}} at the Tricycle Theatre alongside Michelle Fairley and Angeline Ball. Then appeared in the premiere of A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky{{cite news|title='A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky' Review|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117942810|publisher=Variety|accessdate=18 May 2010}} by David Eldridge, Robert Holman and Simon Stephens at the Lyric Hammersmith.
Diveney appeared as series regular Kate Travers in the ITV1 Drama Injustice{{cite web|title="Injustice" – Crime Thriller by Anthony Horowitz Review|url=http://theglobalherald.com/injustice-crime-thriller-by-anthony-horowitz-on-itv1-6th-10th-june-2011/17539/|work=The Global Herald|accessdate=5 June 2011|archive-date=1 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901034315/http://theglobalherald.com/injustice-crime-thriller-by-anthony-horowitz-on-itv1-6th-10th-june-2011/17539/|url-status=live}} where she played the on-screen daughter of James Purefoy and Dervla Kirwan. She then went on to play Bridget in Bijan Sheibani's production of Moonlight{{cite web|title=Dance Review: Harold Pinter's Moonlight, Donmar Warehouse, London|url=http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/240741/Dance-review%3A-Harold-Pinter%27s-Moonlight,-Donmar-Warehouse,-London/|publisher=Express|accessdate=15 April 2011}} at the Donmar Warehouse, where she starred alongside David Bradley and Daniel Mays.
Diveney played Julia Masterson in Series 2 of the BBC drama Call the Midwife.{{cite web|title=BBC One Call the Midwife|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r1s41|publisher=BBC|access-date=2 July 2013|archive-date=22 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522142215/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r1s41|url-status=live}}
In 2014 Diveney starred alongside Sir Tony Robinson and Imogen Stubbs in The Hypochondriac.{{Cite web |url=http://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/page/3009/The-Hypochondriac/890 |title=The Hypochondriac | What's on | Theatre Royal Bath |access-date=23 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023220653/http://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/page/3009/The-Hypochondriac/890 |archive-date=23 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}
and in the same year, appeared as Sasha in the premiere of Moses Raine's Donkey Heart{{cite web|title="Donkey Heart" by Moses Raine- Evening Standard Review|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/donkey-heart-red-lion--theatre-review-9353729.html|work=Evening Standard|date=12 May 2014|location=London|accessdate=12 May 2014|archive-date=15 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515164135/http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/donkey-heart-red-lion--theatre-review-9353729.html|url-status=live}} directed by Nina Raine at the Old Red Lion which transferred to the Trafalgar Studios.
Diveney then went on to play Masha in The Seagull{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/the-seagull-9|title=The Seagull|date=25 June 2015|access-date=20 April 2020|archive-date=1 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801152650/https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/the-seagull-9|url-status=live}} at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre directed by Matthew Dunster.{{Cite web|url=http://www.openairtheatre.com/production/the-seagull|title=The Seagull|access-date=1 June 2015|archive-date=20 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620043130/http://openairtheatre.com/production/the-seagull|url-status=live}}
In 2023, she reunited with Matthew Dunster to play Ruth in his production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming{{Cite web |title=The Young Vic What's On: Harold Pinter's The Homecoming |date=27 November 2023 |url=https://www.youngvic.org/whats-on/the-homecoming |access-date=3 June 2024 |archive-date=3 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603174927/https://www.youngvic.org/whats-on/the-homecoming |url-status=live }} at The Young Vic, starring alongside Jared Harris and Joe Cole.
References
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External links
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Category:Alumni of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Category:Welsh television actresses
Category:Welsh stage actresses