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name: "Saskia Reeves"
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imdb_id: "nm0716293"
tmdb_id: 13363
wikidata_id: "Q273366"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 August 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-10-07T15:54:16.587863+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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# Saskia Reeves

## Identity

Saskia Reeves

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/saskia-reeves
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** saskia-reeves
- **IMDb ID:** nm0716293
- **TMDB ID:** 13363
- **Wikidata ID:** Q273366
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskia_Reeves, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273366, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716293/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13363

Actor. Born 16 August 1961 in Paddington, London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 August 1961, Paddington, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 2008–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Jack Lowden](https://film.one/person/jack-lowden.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 7 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 76 (2), 2010s 71 (3), 2020s 77 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 75 to 70 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 7, Crime 4, Mystery 4, Comedy 1, History 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $6m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskia_Reeves, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273366, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716293/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13363

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Slow Horses*](https://film.one/tv/slow-horses.md) (82)
- **Netflix:** [*The Outrun*](https://film.one/film/the-outrun.md) (72)
- **AMC+:** [*Luther*](https://film.one/tv/luther.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Saskia Reeves

> Saskia Reeves plays the woman who keeps the office running and is not thanked for it, and she has done it with the same quiet exactness for thirty years. *Slow Horses* finally gave her a part big enough for people to notice.

Watch Catherine Standish in *Slow Horses* (2022–) for an episode and you will notice that she does very little. She keeps the files. She keeps her dignity, which around Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb is the harder task. She has a way of standing slightly to one side of a scene as if she has already heard the conversation and is waiting for it to finish. Reeves gives Standish dignity without giving her any pride, and the series would be coarser without her in it.

She came to the screen late and from the stage, which shows. After Guildhall, and before that puppet shows and satirical revues, she worked with Cheek by Jowl, the RSC and the National Theatre from the mid-1980s. Film arrived in 1990 and 1991 with *Antonia and Jane* and *Close My Eyes*, where she played Natalie, and then came decades of steady work in all three media: Lady Jessica Atreides in the miniseries *Frank Herbert's Dune* (2000), Rose Teller in the first series of *Luther* (2010). None of it made her a name. Most of it made her useful, which in this profession is the rarer thing.

In *Luther* we said she got the thankless job of asking for evidence, and that is her lot in most things: the sensible person, the boss, the mother, the one who says what everyone else is avoiding. What separates her from the dozen actors who get those parts is that she never plays them as furniture. Standish is a recovering alcoholic, and Reeves lets that sit under the tidiness without once underlining it; you feel the effort the neatness costs. In *The Outrun* (2024) her Annie, mother to Saoirse Ronan's Rona, is on screen for a fraction of the running time, and we were steadier whenever she was. The script gives her patience rather than lines, and Reeves makes the patience feel like love that has been tested and has stayed. It moved us more than a part that small has any business doing.

The limit is the parts, not the actor. She has rarely been handed the middle of a story, and we cannot tell you what she does with one because we have not seen it. She has said that it is important, as you get older, to put yourself slightly outside your comfort zone as often as possible. On the evidence, her comfort zone is other people's chaos, and she is the calmest thing in it. If *Slow Horses* ever gives Standish an hour of her own, we will be watching.

## Biography

Saskia Reeves is a British actress. She was born on 16 August 1961 in Paddington, London, and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

She is known for film roles including Natalie in *Close My Eyes* (1991), Lynda in *I.D.* (1995), and Annie in *The Outrun* (2024), and for television appearances as Rose Teller in *Luther* (2010), Lady Jessica Atreides in *Frank Herbert's Dune* (2000), and Catherine Standish in *Slow Horses* (2022–present). Her stage work includes productions at the National Theatre and with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Cheek by Jowl.

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

## On Fi1m (7)

- *The Outrun* (2024), Fi1m 72, as Annie — [page](https://film.one/film/the-outrun.md)
- *Slow Horses* (2022), Fi1m 82, as Catherine Standish — [page](https://film.one/tv/slow-horses.md)
- *Page Eight* (2011), Fi1m 70, as Anthea Catcheside — [page](https://film.one/film/page-eight.md)
- *Vera* (2011), Fi1m 72, as Sarah Marsden — [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)
- *Luther* (2010), Fi1m 72, as Rose Teller — [page](https://film.one/tv/luther.md)
- *Red Riding* (2009), Fi1m 80, as Mandy Wymer — [page](https://film.one/tv/red-riding.md)
- *Me and Orson Welles* (2008), Fi1m 72, as Barbara Luddy — [page](https://film.one/film/me-and-orson-welles.md)

## Complete filmography (90)

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

- *Suez: 24 Hours That Broke the British Empire* (2026), series, as Narrator (voice)
- *National Theatre at Home: End* (2026), as Julie
- *Nurses Come and Go, But None for Me* (2024), Actor
- *The Outrun* (2024), as Annie — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-outrun.md)
- *Shadows* (2023), as Mother
- *Slow Horses* (2022), series, as Catherine Standish — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/slow-horses.md)
- *Creation Stories* (2021), as Helen
- *Roadkill* (2020), series, as Helen Laurence
- *Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes* (2020), as Maddalena Fagandini / Mary Wollstonecraft
- *Us* (2020), series, as Connie Petersen
- *Belgravia* (2020), series, as Ellis
- *National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second* (2019), as Bushy / Green / Duchess of York
- *The Child in Time* (2018), as Thelma Darke
- *Collateral* (2018), series, as Deborah Clifford
- *House of Saud: A Family at War* (2018), series, as Narrator
- *King Lear: Live at Shakespeare's Globe* (2017), as Kent
- *Redemption Road* (2017), series, as Mrs. Hales
- *Our Kind of Traitor* (2016), as Tamara
- *The Prime Minister* (2016), as President
- *The Program* (2015), as Conference Director
- *Wolf Hall* (2015), series, as Johane Williamson — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/wolf-hall.md)
- *Canterbury Cathedral* (2014), series, as Narrator
- *Traders: Millions by the Minute* (2014), series, as Narrator
- *From There to Here* (2014), series, as Claire
- *Salting the Battlefield* (2014), as Anthea Catcheside
- *Nymphomaniac: Vol. I* (2013), as Nurse
- *Anna* (2013), as Michelle Greene
- *Shetland* (2013), series, as Freya Galdie — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/tv/shetland.md)
- *Playhouse Presents* (2012), series, as Teddy Brookman
- *One Night* (2012), series, as Sally
- *Death in Paradise* (2011), series, as Frances Compton
- *Page Eight* (2011), as Anthea Catcheside — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/page-eight.md)
- *NTSF:SD:SUV::* (2011), series, as P.M.O.T.R.N.
- *Vera* (2011), series, as Sarah Marsden — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)
- *Women in Love* (2011), series, as Anna Brangwen
- *National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number* (2010), as Ruth Minnen
- *Luther* (2010), series, as Rose Teller — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/luther.md)
- *Canoe Man* (2010), as Anne Darwin
- *Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983* (2009), as Mandy Wymer
- *Red Riding* (2009), series, as Mandy Wymer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/red-riding.md)
- *Wallander* (2008), series, as Vanya Andersson — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/wallander.md)
- *Me and Orson Welles* (2008), as Barbara Luddy — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/me-and-orson-welles.md)
- *The Fixer* (2008), series, as Andrea Greene
- *The Last Days of the Raj* (2007), as Lady Mountbatten
- *Lewis* (2007), series, as Alison McLennan
- *Unknown Things* (2007), as Mrs Hoogstraten
- *Afterlife* (2005), series, as Sheila Rabey
- *The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle* (2005), as Louisa Doyle
- *A Line in the Sand* (2004), as Meryl Rogers
- *Island at War* (2004), series, as Cassie Mahy
- *The Tesseract* (2004), as Rosa
- *Bodies* (2004), series, as Mary Dodd — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/bodies.md)
- *If...* (2004), series, as Mary Alton
- *Suspicion* (2003), series, as Julie Hopcroft
- *The Commander* (2003), series, as Eileen Judd
- *Spooks* (2002), series, as Sally, Sally Bernard — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/spooks.md)
- *The Inspector Lynley Mysteries* (2002), series, as Eileen Edwards
- *Waking the Dead* (2001), series, as Dr. Laurie Poole
- *Frank Herbert's Dune* (2000), series, as Lady Jessica Atreides
- *A Christmas Carol* (1999), as Mrs. Cratchit
- *L.A. Without a Map* (1999), as Joy
- *Heart* (1999), as Maria Ann McCardle
- *Faith* (1998), as Anna
- *Plotlands* (1997), series, as Chloe Marsh
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, as Marcia Macintyre, Summer Pitt — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md)
- *A Very British Psycho* (1997), as Narrator
- *Different for Girls* (1996), as Jean
- *Silent Witness* (1996), series, as DS Maureen Steele
- *Cruel Train* (1995), as Selina Roberts
- *The Perfect Match* (1995), as Bridget
- *Butterfly Kiss* (1995), as Miriam
- *I.D.* (1995), as Lynda
- *A Summer Day's Dream* (1994), Actor
- *Traps* (1994), as Louise Duffield
- *Citizen Locke* (1994), as Lady Marsham
- *The Bridge* (1992), as Isobel Heatherington
- *Close My Eyes* (1991), as Natalie Bryant
- *Performance* (1991), series, as Irina Shestova
- *In My Defence* (1991), series, as Phillipa Monaghan
- *Antonia and Jane* (1990), as Antonia McGill
- *December Bride* (1990), as Sarah Gilmartin
- *Children Crossing* (1990), as Rosie
- *4 Play* (1989), series, as Helen
- *Metamorphosis* (1989), as Greta Samsa
- *ScreenPlay* (1986), series, as Antonia McGill
- *Theatre Night* (1985), series, as Greta Samsa
- *Lytton's Diary* (1985), series, as Pretty Girl
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, as Rosie, Miriam
- *A Woman of Substance* (1985), series, as Edwina (uncredited)
- *Last Day of Summer* (1984), as Linda

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