Flaminia Cinque

Flaminia Cinque (born 20 August 1964) is an English actress. She is based in London, England.

Flaminia Cinque
Born	20 August 1964 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Education	Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1989–present
Partner(s)	Gerald Heward

Cinque, along with actor Vincenzo Nicoli, has appeared in The Knot, Leap Year, Holy Cannelloni, and Brothers of Italy.

Early life

Cinque was born in Cambridge, England on 20 August 1964. She studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.[1]

Career

She began her acting career in 1989 after graduating from college. Winner of the Peter Ackerman Comedy Prize in 1988 for her stage performances of Mae West in Happy as a Sandbag and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, she worked with Sir Peter Hall for the first of four times in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo in London's West End and took over the leading role when Julie Walters had to pull out of the production. She has played the open air amphitheatre at Epidavros in Greece in Lysistrata and the New Victory Theatre, Broadway, New York in More Grimm Tales. She was invited to join the Comedy Store Players in 2000. She was part of the original cast of David Hare's The Permanent Way at the National Theatre in London UK, which toured to Sydney, Australia and played Conchalla in the first UK production of Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss at the Almeida Theatre, in London, UK.

Her television appearances include Any Human Heart, Ultimate Force, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, The Bill, EastEnders, Doctors and New Tricks.

Cinque played three characters in the program Casualty for 3 different episodes. She portrayed Rita in the BBC miniseries Man in an Orange Shirt.

Her film appearances include Mr. Bean's Holiday, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Show Dogs, What a Girl Wants, Leap Year and The Knot. She appeared in the BBC Radio 4 Program All the Young Dudes as Maria, which ran from 2001 to 2002.[2]

Cinque appeared in the 2011 action film Attack the Block, with Jodie Whittaker, Nick Frost and newcomer John Boyega.[3]

She joined the voice cast of Thomas & Friends as the voice of Ester in the UK & US dubs, respectively.

Personal life

Born in Cambridge, UK of Italian parents (from Brisighella in the Emilia-Romagna region in North East Italy and Sorrento near Naples), she is bilingual in English and Italian and resides in London, England with her partner Gerald Heward. She also speaks French and Spanish. From 1997, she was the London Correspondent/translator and presenter for the Bandini Committee (an outfit which awards rookie Formula 1 drivers in the name of the legendary F1 driver Lorenzo Bandini who lost his life at the Monte Carlo Grand Prix of 1967).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Road Trip	Beautiful Italian	Short film
1996	Candysack	Italian Marilyn Monroe Impersonator (voice)	Direct-to-video
2000	Room to Rent	Margreta
2003	What a Girl Wants	Caterer
2004	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason	Corset Lady
2006	Wednesday	Janice	Short film
2007	Mr. Bean's Holiday	Hotel Maid
2007	Cake	Giulina	Short film
2010	Leap Year	Carla
2012	Tezz	Passenger #5
2012	The Knot	Mrs. Fernandez
2016	Worst Fears	Janice	Direct-to-video Segment #2: "Wednesday"
2018	Show Dogs	Spa Manager
2018	Brothers of Italy	Maddalena Petrucco	Short film
2019	Thomas & Friends: Digs and Discoveries	Ester (voice)	UK/US versions
2019	Holy Cannelloni	Mamma Rosa[4]	Short film
2020	Made in Italy	Deli Owner

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Gophers!	Lillian Gopher, Merv Wombat (voices)	4 episodes
1996	Drop the Dead Donkey	Marika	Episode: "The Graveyard Shift"
1997	Sunnyside Farm	Conchita	Episode: "He's Heavy, He's My Brother"
1997	Mr. White Goes to Westminster	Pizza Delivery Woman	Television movie
1998	The Bill	Olivia	Episode: "A Rainy Night in Sun Hill"
1999	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Kate	Episodes: "The Lake of Darkness: Parts 1 & 2"
2000	Blue Murder	Carla	Television movie
2002	TLC	Gasman's Patient	Episode: "Agency Nurse"
2005	Casualty	Beth Mather	Episode: "Secrets That We Keep"
2005	Waking the Dead	Rebecca Fairclough	Episodes: "Undertow: Parts 1 & 2"
2006	Ultimate Force	Mrs. Guggenheim	Episode: "Charlie Bravo"
2008	Doctors	Deidre Hunter	Episode: "Big Momma"
2011	Tinga Tinga Tales	Flamingo (voice)	4 episodes
2013	Doctors	Inez De la Candia	Episode: "Whose Closet Is It Anyway?"
2015	Casualty	Elaine Buono	Uncredited Episode: "A Child's Heart: Part 1"
2015	Suspicion	Toni	Episode: "Edge of Insanity"
2015	Obsession: Dark Desires	Hannah	Television documentary series Episode: "Cross Your Heart & Hope To Die"
2016	Doctors	Rita Holswell	Episode: "Not Educating Rita"
2016	The Moonstone	Italian Mother	Episode: "#1.1"
2017	Man in an Orange Shirt	Rita	Television movie
2017	The Pact	Fatima	Television movie
2018	EastEnders	DC Allingham	Episode: "29 June 2018: Part 1"
2019–present	Thomas & Friends	Ester, Dame Bella Canto (voices)	UK/US versions
2020	Doctors	May James	Episode: "Tough Choices"[5]
2020	Alex Rider	Housekeeper at Friend Mansion	Episode: "Episode 3"
2020	Trickster	Narrator	8 episodes
2020	A Short Film About Serial Killing	Narrator	Unknown episodes
2020	Wuthering Heights	Zillah	2 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror	Additional Voices (voice)

References

1. "Flaminia Cinque studied at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School". Nuffield Southampton Theaters. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
2. "All The Young Dudes - BBC Radio 4 Drama Series - Starring Jim Sweeney, Flaminia Cinque, Stephen Frost". Jim Sweeney.co.uk. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
3. "Flaminia Cinque in action film 'Attack the Block'". QuickLook Films. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
4. Cinque, Flaminia (19 September 2019). "Holy Cannelloni is one of the funniest and most charming films live ben in..you'll love this!". Twitter. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
5. Writer: David Lloyd; Director: Merlyn Rice; Producer: Peter Leslie Wild (27 February 2020). "Tough Choices". Doctors. BBC. BBC One.

External links

• Flaminia Cinque at IMDb