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Gerda Stevenson
Gerda Stevenson
	Gerda Stevenson at the Féile na Gréine festival, Waterville, County Kerry in 2012
Born	Peeblesshire, Scotland
Nationality	Scottish
Occupation(s)	actress, director, writer

Gerda Stevenson (born in Peeblesshire, Scotland) is a Scottish actress, director and writer. She has played many parts in the theatre, including the title role in Edwin Morgan's English translation of Racine's Phèdre, and Lady Macbeth, and has appeared in many television dramas. She was Murron MacClannough's 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.^[1]

She was, described by The Scotsman in 1999 as "Scotland's finest actress".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. In 2019, her poems illustrated the paintings of her one time neighbour, Scottish painter Christian Small, in the book Inside & Out - The Art of Christian Small, published by Scotland Street Press.^[2]

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;^[3] and Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.^[4] She has written radio plays including: Island Blue,^[5] Secrets: The Punter's Tale,^[6] Secrets: The Escort's Tale^[7] and The Apple Tree.^[8] She directed the Afternoon Play The Price of a Fish Supper.^[9]

Stevenson's partner was the late Scottish Gaelic poet Aonghas MacNeacail.

Her father was the musician and composer Ronald Stevenson.^[10]^[11] Her sister Savourna Stevenson (born 1961) has recorded works on the Scottish harp, the clàrsach. She is a graduate of RADA.

Theatre


Year	Title	Role	Theatre Company	Director	Notes
1982	Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaites	Hameliness	Scottish Theatre Company	Tom Fleming	play by Sir David Lyndsey, adapted by Robert Kemp
1985	Life of Galileo	Virginia	Scottish Theatre Company	Peter Dews	play by Bertolt Brecht
2010	The Government Inspector	The Governor's Wife	Commudicado	Gerry Mulgrew	play by Nikolai Gogol

Radio

Date	Title	Role	Director	Station
12 September 1982 – 10 October 1982	The Bride of Lammermoor			BBC Radio 4
16 May 1985	Watching Waiters			BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
13 March 1990	Fair Kirsten		Marilyn Imrie	BBC Radio 3
1 June 1990	The Interview	Reader	Bruce Young	BBC Radio 4 Morning Story
11 June 1990	Blood and Ice		Marilyn Imrie	BBC Radio 4 The Monday Play
27 October 1990	Witchwood			BBC Radio 4 Saturday Playhouse
7 February 1995	The Upshot			BBC Radio 4 Thirty Minute Theatre
14 December 1997	The Secret Commonwealth		Patrick Rayner	BBC Radio 4
22 January 1998	Tam o'Shanter		Hamish Wilson	BBC Radio 4
21 March 1998 (Recorded on 22 February 1998)	Camelot^[12]	Nimue		BBC Radio 2
6 December 1999 – 13 December 1999	The Last Days of Mankind		Giles Havergal	BBC Radio 3 Sunday Play
5 February 2001 – 16 February 2001	Telling Liddy	Bridie	Pam Wardell	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
11 February 2001	Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off	Mary, Queen of Scots / Marian	Marilyn Imrie	BBC Radio 4
11 March 2001	Every Bit of It	Georgia	Susan Roberts	BBC Radio 4
19 February 2002	A Hundred Miles^[13]		Bruce Young	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
25 August 2002 – 1 September 2002	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie^[14]	Jean Brodie	Bruce Young	BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
25 January 2003 – 1 February 2003	Inspector Rebus: The Falls^[15]	Jean Burchill	Bruce Young	BBC Radio 4 The Saturday Play
31 March 2003 – 11 April 2003	Self-Control	Laura Montreville	Bruce Young	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
6 May 2003	The Whole Story and Other Stories: Gothic by Ali Smith	Reader	David Jackson Young	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading
5 April 2004 – 9 April 2004	For the Love of Willie	Liza	Bruce Young	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
10 January 2005 – 21 January 2005	The Gowk Storm	Innkeeper's Wife	David Ian Neville	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
31 March 2005	Wooden Heart	Uta	Mary Ward Lowery	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
16 May 2005	A Breath from Other Planets	Mathilde	Bruce Young	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
25 February 2006	Christabel's Anarchist	Christabel	Bruce Young	BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play
7 August 2006 – 2 October 2006	Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery^[16]	Steve	Patrick Rayner	BBC Radio 4
30 August 2006	The Madeleine Effect: Mangoes by Joanna Blythman	Reader	Kirsty Williams	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading
9 September 2007 – 16 September 2007	The Heart of Midlothian^[3]	Jeanie Deans	Bruce Young	BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
23 March 2008	The Muse of Rose Street^[17]	Reader	Monise Durrani	BBC Radio 4
16 May 2008 – 4 July 2008	Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery^[18]	Steve	Patrick Rayner	BBC Radio 4
4 December 2009	Distributing Dave^[19]			BBC Radio Scotland Drama
22 December 2009	The Three Knots^[20]	Old Woman	Kirsty Williams	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
11 June 2010 – 30 July 2010	Paul Temple and Steve^[21]	Steve	Patrick Rayner	BBC Radio 4
23 September 2010	The Second Mr Bailey^[22]	Margaret	Bruce Young	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
25 January 2011	The Culture Café: Completely Burns^[23]	Reader	Esme Kennedy	BBC Radio Scotland
14 February 2011	The Book Café^[24]	Reader		BBC Radio Scotland
28 February 2011	Secrets: The Punter's Tale^[6]	Cara	Bruce Young	BBC Radio Scotland Drama
8 May 2011	Hume, the Philosophical Historian^[25]	Reader	Louise Yeoman	BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature
24 August 2011 – 12 October 2011	A Case for Paul Temple^[26]	Steve	Patrick Rayner	BBC Radio 4
12 October 2011	I Confess: The Power of the Confession^[27]	Isobel Gowdie	Liza Greig	BBC Radio 3 The Essay

Film and television

Stevenson won a BAFTA Best Film Actress Award for her role in Margaret Tait's feature film Blue Black Permanent, and has been twice nominated for the CATS awards.^[28]

Stevenson directed the film The Storm Watchers, the script for which was written by George Mackay Brown, for the St. Magnus International Festival. She wrote and directed the film Paper Portraits (2025), about workers in the Midlothian paper-making industry, for Penicuik Community Arts Association.^[29]

References

^ BBC – Robert Burns – Works read by Gerda Stevenson
^ "Scotland Street Press | Bookstore | Inside and Out". www.scotlandstreetpress.com. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
^ ^a ^b BBC – Classic Serial – The Heart of Midlothian
^ BBC – Classic Serial – Sunset Song
^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – Island Blue
^ ^a ^b BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Secrets: The Punter's Tale
^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Secrets: The Escort's Tale
^ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Apple Tree
^ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Price of a Fish Supper
^ Gasser, M., "Ronald Stevenson, Composer-Pianist : An Exegetical Critique from a Pianistic Perspective" (Edith Cowan University Press, Western Australia, 2013)
^ "Braveheart actress composes song for local school". Peebleshire News. 31 July 2009. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
^ CastAlbums » Camelot » BBC Radio 2 Cast
^ Scottish Theatre Archive – A Hundred Miles
^ Radio – Scattered dreams – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Sue Arnold, The Observer, 1 September 2002
^ BBC – The Saturday Play – Inspector Rebus: The Falls
^ BBC – Paul Temple – Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery
^ BBC – The Muse of Rose Street
^ BBC – Paul Temple – Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery
^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Distributing Dave
^ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Three Knots
^ BBC – Paul Temple – Paul Temple and Steve
^ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Second Mr Bailey
^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – The Culture Café: Completely Burns
^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – The Book Café
^ BBC – Sunday Feature – Hume, the Philosophical Historian
^ BBC – Paul Temple – A Case for Paul Temple
^ BBC – The Essay – I Confess: The Power of the Confession
^ The Government Inspector theatre programme, Communicado, 2010
^ Riach, Alan and Stevenson, Gerda, "Paper Portraits", in The National, pp. 26 & 27, ISSN 1358-4286

External links

[1] BBC – Robert Burns – Works read by Gerda Stevenson

[2] "Scotland Street Press | Bookstore | Inside and Out". www.scotlandstreetpress.com. Retrieved 7 June 2022.

[HoM-3] BBC – Classic Serial – The Heart of Midlothian

[4] BBC – Classic Serial – Sunset Song

[5] BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – Island Blue

[Punter-6] BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Secrets: The Punter's Tale

[7] BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Secrets: The Escort's Tale

[8] BBC – Afternoon Play – The Apple Tree

[9] BBC – Afternoon Play – The Price of a Fish Supper

[10] Gasser, M., "Ronald Stevenson, Composer-Pianist : An Exegetical Critique from a Pianistic Perspective" (Edith Cowan University Press, Western Australia, 2013)

[11] "Braveheart actress composes song for local school". Peebleshire News. 31 July 2009. Retrieved 20 December 2022.

[12] CastAlbums » Camelot » BBC Radio 2 Cast

[13] Scottish Theatre Archive – A Hundred Miles

[14] Radio – Scattered dreams – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Sue Arnold, The Observer, 1 September 2002

[15] BBC – The Saturday Play – Inspector Rebus: The Falls

[16] BBC – Paul Temple – Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery

[17] BBC – The Muse of Rose Street

[18] BBC – Paul Temple – Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery

[19] BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Distributing Dave

[20] BBC – Afternoon Play – The Three Knots

[21] BBC – Paul Temple – Paul Temple and Steve

[22] BBC – Afternoon Play – The Second Mr Bailey

[23] BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – The Culture Café: Completely Burns

[24] BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – The Book Café

[25] BBC – Sunday Feature – Hume, the Philosophical Historian

[26] BBC – Paul Temple – A Case for Paul Temple

[27] BBC – The Essay – I Confess: The Power of the Confession

[28] The Government Inspector theatre programme, Communicado, 2010

[29] Riach, Alan and Stevenson, Gerda, "Paper Portraits", in The National, pp. 26 & 27, ISSN 1358-4286

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