Siri Neal

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| birth_name = Siri Willow Ceridwen Neal

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|8|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales

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| othername = Siri O'Neal

| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1988{{ndash}}1998

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Siri Willow Ceridwen Neal, sometimes credited as Siri O'Neal, is a film and television actress. She is best known for appearing as Minty, the lead role in Moondial (1988).

Career

Born Siri Willow Ceridwen Neal, Neal's grandmother's surname was O'Neal. Her mother altered it to "Neal". Since 1996 Neal has also used "O'Neal".Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins, 5th ed., Adrian Room, McFarland & Co. Inc., 2010, p. 360

She is best known for appearing as Minty, the lead role in Moondial (1988), a children's television series originally aired on the BBC.{{Cite book|last=Sherman|first=Fraser A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BBTaDQAAQBAJ&q=Siri+Neal+moondial&pg=PA35|title=Now and Then We Time Travel: Visiting Pasts and Futures in Film and Television |date=2017-02-06 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2643-7 |language=en}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.pissedoffgeek.com/2015/05/04/moondial-review/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527100450/http://www.pissedoffgeek.com/2015/05/04/moondial-review/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=27 May 2015|title='Moondial' Review - A Healthy Dose of Nostalgia for Fans of Eighties Children's TV|last=Metcalf|first=Paul|date=2015-05-04|website=Pissed Off Geek |language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-20}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/colin-cant-interview |title=Colin Cant {{!}} MOONDIAL|website=STARBURST Magazine|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-04-20}}

Neal also appeared as Juanita, a guerilla leader/French double agent, in the television film Sharpe's Battle (1995), a part of the multi-part drama series Sharpe. She also guest starred in two episodes of the TV drama Lovejoy: "Highland Fling Part 1" and "Highland Fling Part 2".{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

Her last credited role was as a social worker in the film Urban Ghost Story (1998).{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

Since then, Neal has worked on various audiobooks, including the Doctor Who spin off UNIT (2004) alongside David Tennant.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

Neal has also provided TV/radio voiceovers for Argos, Clover, Nescafe, Powergen, Sainsburys, Channel 4, Jazz FM & Homelessness.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

Filmography

=Film=

Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
class="wikitable sortable"
1989	The Rachel Papers	Suki
1990	The Children	Judith
1992	Waterland	Helen Atkinson
1998	Urban Ghost Story	Social worker	as Siri O'Neal

=Television=

Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
class="wikitable sortable"
1988	Moondial	Araminta 'Minty' Cane	6 episodes
1989	Summer's Lease		2 episodes
1990	Press Gang	Charlotte	Episode: "Breakfast at Czar's"
1990	Alleyn Mysteries	Sonia Gluck	Episode: "Artists in crime"
1992	The Cloning of Joanna May	Bethany
1992	Lovejoy	Sandra Wilson	2 episodes
1993	Stay Lucky	Linda	Episode: "Gilding the lily"
1993	Jackanory	Storyteller	Episode: "Florizella and the Wolves"
1993	Inspector Wycliffe	Christine Glynn	Episode: "Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death"
1993	The Bill	Lizzie Hart	Episode: "You Don't Always Get What You Want"
1995	Sharpe	Juanita	Episode: "Sharpe's Battle"
2002	NCS Manhunt	Stacey Brown	Episode: "Out of Time (Part 2)" (as Siri O'Neal)

=Theatre=

Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
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unknown	The Devil’s Law Case	Jolenta	Edinburgh Festival
1991/1192	The Philanderer	Sylvia	Hampstead Theatre
1992	Slip of the Tongue	Ivana	Shaftesbury Theatre
1993/1994	The Master Builder	Hilde Wangle	Royal Lyceum & Riverside Studio
1995	Tess of the D’Urbervilles	Tess	Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch
1996	The Entertainer	Jean	Hampstead & Watermill Theatre
1997	Tiger Tail	Baby Doll	Plymouth Theatre Royal
1997	Lady Windemere’s Fan	Lady Windemere	Chichester Festival Theatre
1998	The Alchemical Wedding	Joan Kelly	Salisbury Playhouse

=Audiobooks=

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Year ! Title !Role
1996	Present Laughter \|
1997	Bram Stoker's Dracula \|
1999	Selections from The Decameron \|
2003	Doctor Who Unbound \|Ruth Mills
2005 \|The Adventures of Luther Arkwright \|Rose
2004	UNIT \|Emily Chaudhry
2023 \|Heart of Empire \|Rose

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Year

! Title

!Role

1996

Present Laughter

1997

Bram Stoker's Dracula

1999

Selections from The Decameron

2003

Doctor Who Unbound