Maggie Guess

Dr. Elizabeth Woolley

Maggie has just finished a run in Whose Life Is It Anyway? with Kim Cattrall in the West End. Other West End credits include A Passionate Woman and Noises Off at the Comedy, Wife Begins at Forty at the Ambassadors and Bread at the Dominion as well as Steel Magnolias at the Lyric for which she understudied and then played Truvy. She has toured Britain in Steel Magnolias, Pride & Prejudice, Fiddlers Five, Witness for the Prosecution, Suddenly at Home and Outside Edge, and Scandinavia in Move Over, Mrs. Markham and The Mousetrap. Repertory seasons include Nairobi, Guernsey, Southwold, Leatherhead and Hull as well as two years working in Canada where she appeared in productions of Wojeck, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and Charley’s Aunt.

On Radio she is the voice of Mrs. ‘Freak’ Dimsworthy in Lord Peter Wimsey and a regular reader on Feedback. On television she appears regularly in the children’s comedy show, ZZZAP, and has played a variety of characters in Birds of a Feather, Goodnight Sweetheart, Father Matthew’s Daughter, To Have & to Hold, Eddie’s Weekend, Moseley, Me & My Girl, How Do You Want Me? and, most recently, the Inspector Lynley Mysteries.