Jackie Smith-Wood
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Jackie Smith-Wood is a British actress and director. As an actress she has worked in film, television, theatre and radio.
Internationally she is best known for her portrayal of Mary Crawford in the BBC's 1983 miniseries of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. She made over a dozen British television appearances, including a guest-starring role in the series Barry Morse Presents Strange But True.
Her stage credits include:
Ann Whitefield in Shaw's Man and Superman with Peter O'Toole, at the Cambridge Theatre (1982)
Eliza Doolittle opposite Peter O'Toole's Henry Higgins, in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion at the Shaftesbury Theatre (1984)
Mrs Gibbs in The Royal Baccarat Scandal by Royce Ryton, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket (1989)
Smith-Wood directed Chekov's The Bear and The Proposal for Studio Theatrale du Luberon in 2006, and Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit for Studio Theatrale du Luberon in 2008.
She was educated at Oxford University and at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. She was formerly based in Oxford, and is now based in Gloucester.