“I did quite a lot of reading about analysis and psychotherapy to prepare for the role. There are differing views on why Ophelia might have gone mad, or whether she actually chose to go mad. I elected the choice to go mad.”

English actress

Tara Fitzgerald is an English actress, best known for work across film, television, radio and the stage. Her career spans the 1990s and beyond, and she has 100 quotes on the site. She won the New York Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play in 1995 for playing Ophelia in Hamlet, and in 1999 she received the Best Actress Award at The Reims International Television Festival for Frenchman’s Creek. Fitzgerald has also appeared in West End productions such as The Misanthrope and A Doll’s House, and since 2007 she has appeared in more than 30 episodes of Waking the Dead. She also played Selyse Baratheon in Game of Thrones.