Alison Peebles (born 1953) is a Scottish actress, director, and writer in theatre, film, and television. She is a co-founder of Communicado, a Scottish theatre company.
Peebles trained as a painter at Edinburgh College of Art.
In 1983, she co-founded Communicado, a Scottish theatre company, with Gerry Mulgrew and Rob Pickavance.[1]
Peebles portrayed Lady Macbeth in Michael Boyd's celebrated 1993 production of Macbeth at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland.[2] She directed the film AfterLife, which won the Standard Life Audience Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2003.[3]
Peebles appeared in the documentary Multiple, shown on BBC Scotland in February 2006, in which she revealed that she has multiple sclerosis.[4] [5] [6] Her Molly and Mack character, Mrs. Juniper, has been shown to use a crutch to get around.
In 2016, Peebles was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2016 BAFTA Scotland Film Awards.[7]
| Year | Title | Role | Company | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | The Hypochondriak | Beline | Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh | John Matthews and Gerry Mulgrew | Hector MacMillan's Scots translation of Molière's Le Malade imaginaire | |
| 1987 | Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off | Communicado | Gerry Mulgrew | play by Liz Lochhead | ||
| 1993 | Macbeth | Tron Theatre, Glasgow | play by William Shakespeare |
| Date | Title | Role | Director | Station | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Hundred Miles[9] | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play | ||||
| The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: The King's Kilt[10] | Miss/Mistress MacEvoy | BBC Radio 4 | |||
| Take Me to the Necropolis[11] | Gypsy Queen | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play |