Gerda Stevenson

Gerda Stevenson (born 10 April 1956 in Peeblesshire, Scotland) is an award-winning Scottish actress, director and writer, described by The Scotsman in 1999 as Scotlands finest actress. She has played many parts in the theatre, including the title role in Edwin Morgans English translation of Racines Phèdre, and Lady Macbeth, and has appeared in many television dramas. She was Murron MacClannoughs mother in the Mel Gibson film Braveheart, and her voice is familiar to listeners of British radio, as a reader of short stories and adaptations. In particular, she has performed several poems and songs by Robert Burns for the BBC.Her play Federer Versus Murray toured to New York in 2012, and her poetry collection If This Were Real was published by Smokestack Books in 2013. She has adapted a number of works for radio: Self-Control by Mary Brunton in which Stevenson played the part of Laura Montreville; For the Love of Willie by Agnes Owens in which Stevenson played the part of Liza; The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott for BBC Radio 4, nominated for a Sony Award in 2008, in which Stevenson played the part of the heroine Jeanie Deans; and Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. She has written radio plays including: Island Blue, Secrets: The Punters Tale, Secrets: The Escorts Tale and The Apple Tree. She directed the Afternoon Play The Price of a Fish Supper.Stevensons partner is the Scottish Gaelic poet Aonghas MacNeacail.Her father is the musician and composer Ronald Stevenson. Her sister Savourna Stevenson (born 1961) has recorded works on the Scottish harp, the clàrsach.

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