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Dorothy Ann Gould is a South African actress; the recipient of 19 Best Actress Awards, her career has taken her to America, Europe and especially the United Kingdom where she has worked and continued to work since 1989.
Dorothy Ann Gould’s love of the classics has seen her performing roles in, amongst others, Dame Janet Suzman’s Hamlet at the Baxter and in Stratford-upon-Avon, Titus Andronicus at The Royal National Theatre and in Spain, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Dame Janet Suzman’s of Othello at The Market Theatre (also filmed for channel four), both Jean Anouilth’s and Sophocles’ Antigone and Anthony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar as well as numerous modern plays by Tom Stoppard, Peter Weis, David Hare and Frederico Lorca, amongst others.
Other highlights in her career include leading roles in Talley’s Folly, Tom and Viv, The Breath of Life, and The Graduate. In 2009, she won the Naledi Best Actress Award, for her performance in Athol Fugard’s Hello and Goodbye.
Dorothy works consistently in the UK, Europe and America. She starred opposite Frank Langella in Abracadaver at Theatre Royal Plymouth and has also had two seasons at Sheffield Crucible Theatre, performing in plays by Gogol, Miller, Chekov and Shakespeare. After compiling a programme of South African prose and poetry for the Shakespeare Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, she played The Grand High Witch in Roald Dahl’s The Witches on London’s West End at The Duke of York’s Theatre and contnued with the show on a year long number one tour of 48 cities in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
In her years in the U.K. she performed in A View from the Bridge; The Government Inspector; The Seagull and As You Like It at the Crucible Theatre, The Cherry Orchard and The Free State at Birmingham Rep and on a National Tour.
In America she played the leading role in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and has performed in the award-winning Molora, for which she received the 2008 Johannesburg Naledi Best Actress Award. This production has been to the UK, America, The Netherlands, Greece, Canada and Ireland and New York in 2011.
Her television work in South Africa has been extensive, covering nine local mini–series, a two-year stint on a soapie, and five one-off dramas. She has performed on radio since the age of 15 and most recently was invited to the BBC to perform in Athol Fugard's People are Living There.
Television dramas include Isidingo, for which she won Best Actress in a multi-camera series 2000 as well as Rockville I and II in 2012 and 2013. She has appeared in several international feature films and mini-series. In 2010, she was performance and drama coach on Africa United and Protect the Nation, with the action anime remake Kite as her most recent project. She has also completed filming an American feature film called Unfriend.
She coordinated a storytelling festival for Barney Simon at the Market Theatre in 1993 involving 37 different language groups and has directed many plays for the theatre, notably Brecht's Baal, Lorca's Yerma, Peter Weis's Marat Sade, Japes, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Arcadia.
A teacher of voice and acting since 1972 she was the former Artistic Director and founder of The Actors Centre at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre, one of only four centres in the world. She currently holds the same title at Triple Take Studios.
She performed to a sold out season of Hamlet, launching the International Shakespeare Festival in Stratford upon Avon, and performed in Green Man Flashing at The Oval House Theatre, London. In 2007 Gould appeared as a main cast member of the SABC2 television drama series 90 Plein Street. She played the role of Emily Cavendish Fitzgerald, Lucille’s (Sandra Prinsloo) scorned friend, in the second season of the SABC2 drama series Erfsondes, in 2009.
