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She has walked in the Hall of County General of Chicago Is And flown in the TARDIS am a doctorbut alex kingston will cross now strictly dance floor.
The 62-year-old actor was born in Surrey and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) Ralph FiennesHer future husband.
He made his screen debut in 1980 in the BBC series Grange Hilland great success on stage in that decade; After joining the Royal Shakespeare Company, he played some of the playwright’s most famous roles in the 1990s.
Kingston got her big TV break in the 1990s. After a small guest role in a British show Bill (1988–95) and soldier, soldier (1993), he began to gain wider recognition thanks to the ITV crime drama Knock and his BAFTA-nominated performance in the Daniel Defoe adaptation The fortunes and misfortunes of Moll Flanders (both 1996) opposite future Bond star Daniel Craig.
But it was her role as Dr Elizabeth Corday in the medical drama Is Which propelled him to global stardom. She made her debut in the 1997 season four premiere, a special live installment, and remained a main cast member of the series until the 11th season in 2004.
Kingston was candid about his departure, revealing that producers wanted to replace him with younger actors. However, he said he is very proud of the work he has done and is grateful for the professional connections and friendships he has made on the show.
Her character returned for two episodes in the show’s 15th and final season, which aired in 2009, bringing her total number of episodes to 160.
Kingston revealed that she almost starred in another long-running American series. Star auditions for Felicity Huffman’s role of Lynette Scavo desperate HousewivesBut claimed she was rejected for being “too curvy”.
while acting IsKingston also appeared in the neo-noir film croupier along with clive owen BoudicaThe 2003 ITV drama that introduced the world to Hollywood star Emily Blunt.
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However, her next big role came in 2008 when she was cast as River Song am a doctorWhat was supposed to be a guest role turned into a recurring role, with Kingston returning for 13 more episodes opposite Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi’s incarnations of the Time Lord.
After this he played a role Gilmore Girls Revival A Year in the Life (2016)fantasy drama a quest for witches (2018–22), Netflix’s treason (2022) and 2024 ITV show douglas has been canceledwhich reunited the actor with ex am a doctor Showrunner Steven Moffat.
In 2023, he returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company after 30 years to play the role of Prospero. storm,
Kingston was in a relationship with Fiennes for 10 years before they married in 1993, but two years later, Fiennes had an affair with actor Francesca Annis.
Fiennes separated from Kingston in 1995, and the couple divorced in 1997.
Kingston married German writer Florian Hertel the following year, with whom he has a daughter, and following their divorce in 2013, she married TV producer Jonathan Stamp in 2015.
next to that strictly debut, Kingston said she was inspired to join the show after watching her friend, miranda Actress Sarah Headland was runner-up in last year’s series.
“I reached out to him and asked him what his experience was of being a part of the show [was]And she was really honest with me about how hard it is, how overwhelming it can be, but also how it has completely changed her life and she would do it again in a heartbeat,” she said.