KAREN DRURY
Claire Flemming

Karen was born in Yorkshire and trained at RADA where she won the Shakespeare Prize. She made her debut in Once A Catholic at the Crucible, Sheffield, and on national tour.

Theatre works include new plays at the Royal Court, Soho Poly and Croydon Warehouse, and the original cast of Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! At the Criterion, West End. Appearances at Bristol Old Vic include Viola in Twelfth Night and Fay in Loot; at Southampton in Ghosts, The Venetian Twins, and She Stoops to Conquer; Lady Chatterley in Lady Chatterley’s Lover at Leicester; Natalya Petrovna in Turgenev’s A Month in the Country in Leeds; at Manchester Royal Exchange in Zack, She Stoops to Conquer and The Country Wife; at Windsor in Natural Causes; at Nottingham Playhouse in Anatol and Whiskey Galore including national tour; and Scarborough and West End as Stephanie in Time of My Life written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn. She has played Maid Marion, the Fairy Godmother and the Wicked Queen in pantomime.

For Middle Ground she played the Celia Johnson part of Laura in Brief Encounter for which she won a Best Actress Manchester Evening News Award 2002-03. She also appeared as Olivia in a national tour of The Shell Seekers and in The Country by Martin Crimp at Warwick Arts Centre, and national tours of Deadlock written and directed by Peter Benedict, In the Club by Richard Bean and Deadly Game by David Foley.

Television work includes All creatures Great and Small, The Gay Lord Quex, This Year, Next Year, Book Tower,Eh Brian, It’s a Whopper,Emmerdale,Tiny Revolutions, Coronation Street, The Collectors, Comic Strips The Yob, Lovejoy, Men of the World Carol, Fordingbridge in A Bit of a Do and Melissa Quigley in the comedy series Ain’t Misbehavin’, Holby City, Casulty, Doctors, Rosemary and Thyme and Heartbeat.

She is probably best known as the ill-fated Susannah Farnham in Brookside for which she won the Best Actress Award at the British soap and Inside Soap Awards, and was nominated
for a TV BAFTA.

Film work includes Cry Freedom.

Karen spends a lot of time renovating her sixteenth century cottage.

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