Gerda Stevenson

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Gerda Stevenson (born April 10, 1956) is a Scottish actress, director and writer. Known for her wide-ranging works in media, her notable stage roles include the title character in Edwin Morgan's English translation of Racine's Phèdre, and Lady Macbeth. In film, she starred alongside Celia Imrie in Margaret Tait's Blue Black Permanent (1992) and played the mother of Murron MacClannough in Braveheart (1995) winning the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actress for the former.[1] She was described by The Scotsman in 1999 as "Scotland's finest actress". In 2002, she played Helen Gilmore in the soap opera River City.[2]

In addition to her screen and stage work, Stevenson is also a playwright, poet, and frequently appears on radio as a reader of short stories and as an actress in adaptations. Her play Federer vs. Murray has toured New York City and her poetry collection If This Were Real was published by Smokestack Books in 2013. In 2019, her poems illustrated the paintings of her one-time neighbour, Scottish painter Christian Small, in the book Inside & Out - The Art of Christian Small, published by Scotland Street Press.[3] She was a contributing writer to the 2024 book Feminist Theatre Then & Now: Celebrating 50 years.

Her radio work consists of several performances of poems and songs by Robert Burns for the BBC,[4] as well as numerous radio dramas: Self-Control by Mary Brunton as Laura Montreville; For the Love of Willie by Agnes Owens as Liza; The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott for BBC Radio 4, nominated for a Sony Award in 2008, as Jeanie Deans;[5] and Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.[6] She has also written radio dramas including: Island Blue,[7] Secrets: The Punter's Tale,[8] Secrets: The Escort's Tale[9] and The Apple Tree.[10] She directed the Afternoon Play The Price of a Fish Supper.[11]

Theatre

Year Title Role Theatre Company Director Notes
1982 Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaites Hameliness Scottish Theatre Company Tom Fleming play by Sir David Lyndsey, adapted by Robert Kemp
1985 Life of Galileo Virginia Scottish Theatre Company Peter Dews play by Bertolt Brecht
2010 The Government Inspector The Governor's Wife Commudicado Gerry Mulgrew play by Nikolai Gogol

Radio

Date Title Role Director Station
Template:Dts – Template:Dts The Bride of Lammermoor BBC Radio 4
Template:Dts Watching Waiters BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
Template:Dts Fair Kirsten Marilyn Imrie BBC Radio 3
Template:Dts The Interview Reader Bruce Young BBC Radio 4 Morning Story
Template:Dts Blood and Ice Marilyn Imrie BBC Radio 4 The Monday Play
Template:Dts Witchwood BBC Radio 4 Saturday Playhouse
Template:Dts The Upshot BBC Radio 4 Thirty Minute Theatre
Template:Dts The Secret Commonwealth Patrick Rayner BBC Radio 4
Template:Dts Tam o'Shanter Hamish Wilson BBC Radio 4
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(Recorded on 22 February 1998)		 Camelot[12] Nimue BBC Radio 2
Template:Dts – Template:Dts The Last Days of Mankind Giles Havergal BBC Radio 3 Sunday Play
Template:Dts – Template:Dts Telling Liddy Bridie Pam Wardell BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
Template:Dts Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off Mary, Queen of Scots / Marian Marilyn Imrie BBC Radio 4
Template:Dts Every Bit of It Georgia Susan Roberts BBC Radio 4
Template:Dts A Hundred Miles[13] Bruce Young BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
Template:Dts – Template:Dts The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie[14] Jean Brodie Bruce Young BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
Template:Dts – Template:Dts Inspector Rebus: The Falls[15] Jean Burchill Bruce Young BBC Radio 4 The Saturday Play
Template:Dts – Template:Dts Self-Control Laura Montreville Bruce Young BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
Template:Dts The Whole Story and Other Stories: Gothic by Ali Smith Reader David Jackson Young BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading
Template:Dts – Template:Dts For the Love of Willie Liza Bruce Young BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
Template:Dts – Template:Dts The Gowk Storm Innkeeper's Wife David Ian Neville BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
Template:Dts Wooden Heart Uta Mary Ward Lowery BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
Template:Dts A Breath from Other Planets Mathilde Bruce Young BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
Template:Dts Christabel's Anarchist Christabel Bruce Young BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play
Template:Dts – Template:Dts Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery[16] Steve Patrick Rayner BBC Radio 4
Template:Dts The Madeleine Effect: Mangoes by Joanna Blythman Reader Kirsty Williams BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading
Template:Dts – Template:Dts The Heart of Midlothian[5] Jeanie Deans Bruce Young BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
Template:Dts The Muse of Rose Street[17] Reader Monise Durrani BBC Radio 4
Template:Dts – Template:Dts Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery[18] Steve Patrick Rayner BBC Radio 4
Template:Dts Distributing Dave[19] BBC Radio Scotland Drama
Template:Dts The Three Knots[20] Old Woman Kirsty Williams BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
Template:Dts – Template:Dts Paul Temple and Steve[21] Steve Patrick Rayner BBC Radio 4
Template:Dts The Second Mr Bailey[22] Margaret Bruce Young BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
Template:Dts The Culture Café: Completely Burns[23] Reader Esme Kennedy BBC Radio Scotland
Template:Dts The Book Café[24] Reader BBC Radio Scotland
Template:Dts Secrets: The Punter's Tale[8] Cara Bruce Young BBC Radio Scotland Drama
Template:Dts Hume, the Philosophical Historian[25] Reader Louise Yeoman BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature
Template:Dts – Template:Dts A Case for Paul Temple[26] Steve Patrick Rayner BBC Radio 4
Template:Dts I Confess: The Power of the Confession[27] Isobel Gowdie Liza Greig BBC Radio 3 The Essay

Film and television

Stevenson won a BAFTA Best Film Actress Award for her role in Margaret Tait's feature film Blue Black Permanent, and has been twice nominated for the CATS awards.[28]

Stevenson directed the film The Storm Watchers, the script for which was written by George Mackay Brown, for the St. Magnus International Festival. She wrote and directed the film Paper Portraits (2025), about workers in the Midlothian paper-making industry, for Penicuik Community Arts Association.[29]

Personal life

Stevenson's partner was the late Scottish Gaelic poet Aonghas MacNeacail.

Her father was the musician and composer Ronald Stevenson.[30][31] Her sister, Savourna Stevenson, has recorded works on the Scottish harp, the clàrsach.

She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

References

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  4. ↑ BBC – Robert Burns – Works read by Gerda Stevenson
  5. ↑ a b BBC – Classic Serial – The Heart of Midlothian
  6. ↑ BBC – Classic Serial – Sunset Song
  7. ↑ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – Island Blue
  8. ↑ a b BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Secrets: The Punter's Tale
  9. ↑ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Secrets: The Escort's Tale
  10. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Apple Tree
  11. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Price of a Fish Supper
  12. ↑ CastAlbums » Camelot » BBC Radio 2 Cast
  13. ↑ Scottish Theatre Archive – A Hundred Miles
  14. ↑ Radio – Scattered dreams – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Sue Arnold, The Observer, 1 September 2002
  15. ↑ BBC – The Saturday Play – Inspector Rebus: The Falls
  16. ↑ BBC – Paul Temple – Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery
  17. ↑ BBC – The Muse of Rose Street
  18. ↑ BBC – Paul Temple – Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery
  19. ↑ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Distributing Dave
  20. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Three Knots
  21. ↑ BBC – Paul Temple – Paul Temple and Steve
  22. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Second Mr Bailey
  23. ↑ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – The Culture Café: Completely Burns
  24. ↑ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – The Book Café
  25. ↑ BBC – Sunday Feature – Hume, the Philosophical Historian
  26. ↑ BBC – Paul Temple – A Case for Paul Temple
  27. ↑ BBC – The Essay – I Confess: The Power of the Confession
  28. ↑ The Government Inspector theatre programme, Communicado, 2010
  29. ↑ Riach, Alan and Stevenson, Gerda, "Paper Portraits", in The National, pp. 26 & 27, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".
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  31. ↑ Gasser, M., "Ronald Stevenson, Composer-Pianist : An Exegetical Critique from a Pianistic Perspective" (Edith Cowan University Press, Western Australia, 2013)

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