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name: "Maria Aitken"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maria-aitken"
fi1m_id: "maria-aitken"
imdb_id: "nm0014883"
tmdb_id: 8946
wikidata_id: "Q434312"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 September 1945"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:46:28.560150+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Maria Aitken

## Identity

Maria Aitken

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maria-aitken
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** maria-aitken
- **IMDb ID:** nm0014883
- **TMDB ID:** 8946
- **Wikidata ID:** Q434312
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Aitken, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434312, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014883/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8946

Actor. Born 12 September 1945 in Dublin, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 September 1945, Dublin, Ireland
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Aitken, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434312, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014883/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8946

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*A Fish Called Wanda*](https://film.one/film/a-fish-called-wanda.md) (83)

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## Biography

Maria Aitken is a British actress, theatre director, writer and teacher. She was born on 12 September 1945 in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at Riddlesworth Hall Preparatory School, Sherborne School for Girls and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she read English Language and Literature.

As an actress she has appeared in films including *Mary, Queen of Scots* (1971), *Half Moon Street* (1986), *A Fish Called Wanda* (1988) – for which she received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role – *Fierce Creatures* (1997) and *Asylum* (2005). Her stage work includes leading roles with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and she has played more Noël Coward parts than any other actress.

Aitken has directed numerous plays in the West End and on Broadway. Her production of *The 39 Steps* ran for nine years in London and three years on Broadway, winning Olivier and Tony Awards. She has taught at Yale School of Drama, NYU and Juilliard.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Fish Called Wanda* (1988), Fi1m 83, as Wendy — [page](https://film.one/film/a-fish-called-wanda.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Asylum* (2005), as Claudia Greene
- *Spider* (2002), Associate Producer
- *Jinnah* (1998), as Edwina
- *Fierce Creatures* (1997), as Di
- *The Grotesque* (1995), as Lavinia Freebody
- *Love on a Branch Line* (1994), series, as Lady Flamborough
- *The Fool* (1990), as Lady Amelia
- *A Fish Called Wanda* (1988), as Wendy — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/a-fish-called-wanda.md)
- *Michael Caine on Acting in Film, Arts and Entertainment* (1987), Producer
- *Half Moon Street* (1986), as The Hon. Maura Hardcastle
- *Poor Little Rich Girls* (1984), series, as Kate Codd
- *Bedroom Farce* (1980), as Susannah
- *Company and Co* (1980), series, as Samantha Company
- *Whinfrey's Last Case* (1979), as Mrs. Otway
- *Don't Be Silly* (1979), as Ellie Bloom
- *Quiet as a Nun* (1978), as Jemima Shore
- *Jemima Shore Investigates* (1978), series, Actor
- *Romance* (1977), series, as Lady Dolly
- *Out of the Trees* (1976), Actor
- *Scotch on the Rocks* (1973), series, as Sukey Dunmayne
- *The Edwardians* (1972), series, as Jean Conan Doyle
- *Crown Court* (1972), series, as Jocelyn Bennington
- *The Regiment* (1972), series, as Dorothy Saunders
- *Mary, Queen of Scots* (1971), as Lady Bothwell
- *Justice* (1971), series, as Lady Beste
- *Codename* (1970), series, as Mrs. Petrie
- *Manhunt* (1970), series, as Madame Leonard
- *Counterstrike* (1969), series, as Mother
- *Some Girls Do* (1969), as Robot Flight Attendant (uncredited)
- *Doctor Faustus* (1967), as Sloth
- *ITV Playhouse* (1967), series, as Gwen Toynbee, The Young Countess

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play 2008: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (nominated)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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