Loveday Smith

Maggie Howard

Loveday is originally from West Yorkshire in the north of England and trained at East 15 Acting School in London, under Maggie Bury.

Loveday started her career at the Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End, in Bob Carlton’s hit musical Return to the Forbidden Planet. She also toured with this production to Osaka, Japan, where she met her husband, actor Julian Littman, with whom she has appeared on stage several times, most notably at the West End’s Jermyn St. Theatre where they played Rudi and Helen Seress in Gloomy Sunday by Peter Muller. Other West End credits include: John Doyle’s award-winning production of Sweeney Todd; Rosie in Sam Mendes’ Cabaret at the Donmar Warehouse; Thessaly in Lysistrata for the Peter Hall Company and most recently Mollie Ralston in the 56^th year of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at St. Martin’s Theatre.

Loveday’s work has taken her all over the UK, from major cities like Leeds, Belfast and Manchester to more remote areas such as Keswick in the Lake District and the prestigious Watermill Theatre in the tiny village of Bagnor. Favourites roles include Adriana in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, Poopay in Communicating Doors (Alan Ayckbourn) Susie Dean in The Good Companions, Gloria in the stage adaptation of the film Brassed Off, Muriel the Goat in Orwell’s Animal Farm and Michelle in The People Are Friendly by Michael Wynne.

On screen, Loveday has appeared in the popular TV programmes Coronation Street, Emmerdale, A&E, Heartbeat, Brookside and Hollyoaks; and last year spent a lot of time in Southern India filming Madraspattinam, a Tamil love story set at the end of the Raj, in which she played the wife of the Governor of Madras.