Saskia Reeves (born 16 August 1961) is a British actress perhaps best known for her roles in the films Close My Eyes (1991) and I.D. (1995), and the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune. Born and brought up in London to a Dutch mother and English father, Reeves studied at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has since worked with directors such as Mike Leigh, Stephen Poliakoff, Michael Winterbottom and Nicholas Hytner. Early in her career she performed in puppet shows and in satirical revues at the Covent Garden Community Theatre. Her television credits include Spooks and the Bodies finale. Her stage work includes productions at London's National and Royal Court Theatres as well as on international tour. In addition to her acting career, Reeves does voice work, including commercial and narration (book readings) for VocalPoint.net. In 2008, she starred in English Touring Theatre's revival of Athol Fugard's Hello and Goodbye at the Trafalgar Studios in London. In 2010 she starred as Anne Darwin, the wife of the famous disappearing canoeist John Darwin (played by Bernard Hill) in Canoe Man, a dramatisation of the John Darwin disappearance case for BBC4 and in the BBC1 series Luther. In 2011 Reeves played the matriarch, Anna Brangwen, in the first part of William Ivory's two-part adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, first shown on BBC4. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saskia Reeves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

Filmography

• 2026National Theatre at Home: End — Julie
• Suez: 24 Hours That Broke the British Empire — Narrator (voice)
• 2025Out of Nowhere — Narrator
• 2024Nurses Come and Go, But None for Me
• 2024The Outrun — Annie
• 2023Shadows — Mother
• Slow Horses — Catherine Standish
• 2021Creation Stories — Helen
• Belgravia — Ellis
• 2020Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes — Maddalena Fagandini / Mary Wollstonecraft
• Roadkill — Helen Laurence
• Us — Connie Petersen
• 2019National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second — Bushy / Green / Duchess of York
• Collateral — Deborah Clifford
• House of Saud: A Family at War — Narrator
• 2018The Child in Time — Thelma Darke
• 2017King Lear: Live at Shakespeare's Globe — Kent
• Redemption Road — Mrs. Hales
• 2016Our Kind of Traitor — Tamara
• 2016The Prime Minister — President
• 2015The Program — Conference Director
• Wolf Hall — Johane Williamson
• Canterbury Cathedral — Narrator
• From There to Here — Claire
• 2014Salting the Battlefield — Anthea Catcheside
• Traders: Millions by the Minute — Narrator
• 2013Anna — Michelle Greene
• 2013Nymphomaniac: Vol. I — Nurse
• Shetland — Freya Galdie
• One Night — Sally
• Playhouse Presents — Teddy Brookman
• Death in Paradise — Frances Compton
• NTSF:SD:SUV:: — P.M.O.T.R.N.
• 2011Page Eight — Anthea Catcheside
• Vera — Sarah Marsden
• Women in Love — Anna Brangwen
• 2010Canoe Man — Anne Darwin
• Luther — Rose Teller
• 2010National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number — Ruth Minnen
• Red Riding — Mandy Wymer
• 2009Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 — Mandy Wymer
• 2008Me and Orson Welles — Barbara Luddy
• The Fixer — Andrea Greene
• Wallander — Vanya Andersson
• Lewis — Alison McLennan
• 2007The Last Days of the Raj — Lady Mountbatten
• 2007Unknown Things — Mrs Hoogstraten
• Afterlife — Sheila Rabey
• 2005The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle — Louisa Doyle
• 2004A Line in the Sand — Meryl Rogers
• Bodies — Mary Dodd
• If... — Mary Alton
• Island at War — Cassie Mahy
• 2004The Tesseract — Rosa
• Suspicion — Julie Hopcroft
• The Commander — Eileen Judd
• Spooks — Sally, Sally Bernard
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries — Eileen Edwards
• Waking the Dead — Dr. Laurie Poole
• Frank Herbert's Dune — Lady Jessica Atreides
• 1999A Christmas Carol — Mrs. Cratchit
• 1999Heart — Maria Ann McCardle
• 1999L.A. Without a Map — Joy
• 1998Faith — Anna
• 1997A Very British Psycho — Narrator
• Midsomer Murders — Marcia Macintyre, Summer Pitt
• Plotlands — Chloe Marsh
• 1996Different for Girls — Jean
• Silent Witness — DS Maureen Steele
• 1995Butterfly Kiss — Miriam
• 1995Cruel Train — Selina Roberts
• 1995I.D. — Lynda
• 1995The Perfect Match — Bridget
• 1994A Summer Day's Dream
• 1994Citizen Locke — Lady Marsham
• 1994Traps — Louise Duffield
• 1992The Bridge — Isobel Heatherington
• 1991Close My Eyes — Natalie Bryant
• In My Defence — Phillipa Monaghan
• Performance — Irina Shestova
• 1990Antonia and Jane — Antonia McGill
• 1990Children Crossing — Rosie
• 1990December Bride — Sarah Gilmartin
• 4 Play — Helen
• 1989Metamorphosis — Greta Samsa
• ScreenPlay — Antonia McGill
• A Woman of Substance — Edwina (uncredited)
• Lytton's Diary — Pretty Girl
• Screen Two — Rosie, Miriam
• Theatre Night — Greta Samsa
• 1984Last Day of Summer — Linda

Appearances as themselves (3)

• Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Arthouse — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Omnibus — Self