{{Short description|British actor, dancer and director}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Use British English|date=September 2015}} '''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.
==Early life== Peebles trained as a painter at Edinburgh College of Art.
==Career== In 1983, she co-founded Communicado, a Scottish theatre company, with Gerry Mulgrew and Rob Pickavance.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/it-s-really-obvious-that-ubu-doesn-t-have-any-power-1-1102700|title='It's really obvious that Ubu doesn't have any power' |work=The Scotsman |date=2 November 2005 |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref>
Peebles portrayed Lady Macbeth in Michael Boyd's celebrated 1993 production of ''Macbeth'' at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland.<ref>Iain Glen, [http://www.iainglen.com/macbeth.php Review of ''Macbeth''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127001451/http://www.iainglen.com/macbeth.php |date=27 January 2013 }}</ref> She directed the film ''AfterLife'', which won the Standard Life Audience Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2003.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/headed-in-a-new-direction-1-672103 |title=Headed in a new direction |work=The Scotsman |date=20 January 2005|accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref>
==Personal life== Peebles appeared in the documentary ''Multiple'', shown on BBC Scotland in February 2006, in which she revealed that she has multiple sclerosis.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseaction/show/pageid=2776 |title=Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre: Alison Peebles |access-date=8 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617065315/http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseaction/show/pageid=2776 |archive-date=17 June 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/alisonpeebles.html |title=MS in the Public Eye: Alison Peebles |access-date=8 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111223072408/http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/alisonpeebles.html |archive-date=23 December 2011 |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/13072099.actress-alison-peebles-how-ive-dramatised-my-battle-with-ms/ |title=Actress Alison Peebles: how I've dramatised my battle with MS |first=Vicky |last=Allan |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=6 September 2012 |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> Her Molly and Mack character, Mrs. Juniper, has been shown to use a crutch to get around.
==Awards and honours== In 2016, Peebles was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2016 BAFTA Scotland Film Awards.<ref>[http://www.bafta.org/scotland/awards/ceremony/nominees-winners/british-academy-scotland-awards-nominees-in-2016 British Academy Scotland Awards Full List of Nominations]</ref>
==Theatre== {| class="wikitable" |- ! 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'' || Elizabeth || Communicado || Gerry Mulgrew || play by Liz Lochhead |- | 1993 || ''Macbeth'' || Lady Macbeth || Tron Theatre, Glasgow || Michael Boyd || play by William Shakespeare |}
==Filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}}
===Actress=== {{div col|colwidth=24em}} * 1990 ''Casualty'' (TV series) * 1991–1992 ''The Advocates'' (TV series) * 1992 ''Bunch of Five'' (TV series) * 1992–1993 ''Strathblair'' (TV series) * 1995 ''The Final Cut'' (TV mini-series) * 1996 ''Rab C. Nesbitt'' (TV series) * 1997 ''Bumping the Odds'' (TV movie) * 1998 ''The Acid House'' (film) * 1999 ''Psychos'' (TV mini-series) * 2003 ''Skagerrak'' (film) * 2003 ''AfterLife'' (film) * 2004 ''Sex Traffic'' (TV movie) * 1988–2005 ''Taggart'' (TV series) * 2007 ''Silver Tongues'' (short) * 2008 ''Trouble Sleeping'' * 2004–2008 ''High Times'' (TV series) * 2009 ''Eadar-Chluich'' (TV series) * 2009 ''Wasted'' (film) * 2009 ''Floating Is Easy'' (short) * 2010 ''Labour'' (film short) * 2010 ''Lip Service'' (TV series) * 2011 ''Fast Romance'' (film) * 2015 ''Where Do We Go From Here?'' * 2018–2019 ''River City'' as Isobel MacKenzie * 2018–2019 ''Molly and Mack'' (children's TV series) * 2022 ''The Road Dance (film)'' Old Peggy * 2023 ''Doctors'' as Barbara Gray<ref>{{cite news |last1=Timblick |first1=Simon |title=Doctors spoilers: Will Bear Sylvester get ARRESTED? |url=https://www.whattowatch.com/spoilers/doctors-spoilers-will-bear-sylvester-get-arrested |access-date=18 May 2023 |work=What to Watch |publisher=(Future plc)}}</ref> * 2025 ''Dept. Q'' (TV series) {{div col end}}
===Director=== * 2001 ''Nan'' (film short) * 2001 ''Tangerine'' (film short) * 2002-2003 ''Stacey Stone'' (TV series) * 2003 ''AfterLife'' (film) {{div col end}}
==Radio==
{| class="wikitable sortable" ! Date !! Title !! Role !! Director !! Station |- | {{dts|format=dmy|2002-02-19}} || ''A Hundred Miles''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/417619 |title=Scottish Theatre Archive – ''A Hundred Miles'' |access-date=25 December 2019 |archive-date=5 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210705201806/http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/417619 |url-status=dead }}</ref> || || Bruce Young || BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play |- | {{dts|format=dmy|2008-1-7}} || ''The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: The King's Kilt''<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/thestanleybaxterplayhouse/pip/ztx47/ BBC – ''The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – The King's Kilt'']</ref> || Miss/Mistress MacEvoy || Marilyn Imrie || BBC Radio 4 |- | {{dts|format=dmy|2015-1-16}} || ''Take Me to the Necropolis''<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xs4b2 BBC – Afternoon Play – ''Take Me to the Necropolis'']</ref> || Gypsy Queen || Kirsty Williams || BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play |}
==Awards== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%" |- style="text-align:centr;" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Nominated Work ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Awards ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Category ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Result |- | 2016 | rowspan=1| ''Where Do We Go From Here?'' | British Academy Scotland Awards | Best Supporting Actress |{{nom}} |- |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0670196}} * {{YouTube|uamXjBjkq1U|National Theatre of Scotland: Interview with Alison Peebles and Jen Edgar}}
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