Fidelis Morgan (born in a caravan near Stonehenge, Wiltshire, 1952 - ) is a British actress and writer.
Her stage plays include adaptations of famous novels, Pamela and Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square (Lyric Hammersmith, 1990, and the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2008) were acclaimed on the London stage. On television, she collaborated with Lynda La Plante on Channel 4’s thriller Killer Net.
Her non-fiction includes The Female Wits, the first study of female playwrights of the Restoration stage and biographies of charismatic female figures from the 17th and 18th centuries including Charlotte Charke). She edited the bestselling Virago anthology of Female Humour Wicked.
Her novels include the Countess Ashby dela Zouche series of historical crime mysteries: Unnatural Fire, The Rival Queens, The Ambitious Stepmother and Fortune's Slave.
Her short story Down and Dirty appears in Karin Slaughter's Like A Charm.
As an actress, she has appeared on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, repertory in Liverpool - her family's hometown, Birmingham, Nottingham and Leeds as well as spending many years as a regular company member of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre including the West End transfer of Noel Coward's The Vortex.
On television, she has been seen in As Time Goes By, Jeeves and Wooster, Dead Gorgeous, and Mr Majeika.
She has also directed a number of theatre productions including at some of the UK's most prestigious drama schools.
“Fragments From the Life of Marie Antoinette” 1996
”Hangover Square” 1990
“Pamela” with Giles Havergal 1985
Short Stories
“Dead At The Wheel” in “Magazine of Architectural Symposium Pontresina” 2001
“The Actress & The Thief” BBC Radio 4 1995
“The Creep” Image Magazine (Eire) October 1995
"Down and Dirty" in Like A Charm by Karin Slaughter (ed.) (Century [Feb 2004])
Other contributors include: Laura Lippman ? Lee Child ? John Connolly ? Lynda La Plante ? John Harvey ? Peter Robinson ? Karin Slaughter? Emma Donoghue? Denise Mina ? Kelley Armstrong ? Jane Haddam
Contributions to
“Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950” (Palgrave Macmillan [2006]