A Parson’s daughter, Patience was born and brought up in North West Norfolk. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has appeared in many roles in theatres all over the country. These include the National Theatre, the West End and the Young Vic.
Patience is a well known voice on BBC Radio and has made countless broadcasts of plays, poetry, short stories etc. including Isabelle Allende’s novel Paula and Lady Mary Clive’s Christmas with the Savages, both on Book at Bedtime, Gal Audrey by Audrey Whiting and The Letters of Queen Victoria, for Woman’s Hour, Giving up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel, Book of the Week, and five Tales of Victorian Norfolk by Mary Mann, Words and Music for BBC Radio 3, and two short stories by Dorothy Whipple, Handbag and Summer Holiday.
She has recorded many audio books including this year: The Great Lover (about Rupert Brooke) by Jill Dawson, The Lost Child by Julie Myerson (both for Isis), We Will Remember Them: Voices From the Aftermath of the Great War by Max Arthur (Orion), Waterslain Angels by Kevin Crossley-Holland (Oakhill) and Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (Naxos). Television includes The Day Today, Friday Night Armistice, In the Red and Shadowplay.
Patience has narrated Façade by William Walton at the National Portrait Gallery and an evening of Troubadour poetry with Mediva in the Purcell Room. She played Mrs Gould in Black ’ell by Miles Malleson, part of the Forgotten Voices of the Great War season at the Pleasance Theatre, London. Patience has written and performs a one-woman show called A Tale That Is Told based on the life and work of the Norfolk novelist Mary E Mann.
"a serenely satisfying evening" Karen Dugdale, The Argus
(December 2009)
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Patience Tomlinson (Actress)
Patience Tomlinson
Patience is a well known voice on BBC Radio and has made countless broadcasts of plays, poetry, short stories etc. including Isabelle Allende’s novel Paula and Lady Mary Clive’s Christmas with the Savages, both on Book at Bedtime, Gal Audrey by Audrey Whiting and The Letters of Queen Victoria, for Woman’s Hour, Giving up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel, Book of the Week, and five Tales of Victorian Norfolk by Mary Mann, Words and Music for BBC Radio 3, and two short stories by Dorothy Whipple, Handbag and Summer Holiday.
She has recorded many audio books including this year: The Great Lover (about Rupert Brooke) by Jill Dawson, The Lost Child by Julie Myerson (both for Isis), We Will Remember Them: Voices From the Aftermath of the Great War by Max Arthur (Orion), Waterslain Angels by Kevin Crossley-Holland (Oakhill) and Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (Naxos). Television includes The Day Today, Friday Night Armistice, In the Red and Shadowplay.
Patience has narrated Façade by William Walton at the National Portrait Gallery and an evening of Troubadour poetry with Mediva in the Purcell Room. She played Mrs Gould in Black ’ell by Miles Malleson, part of the Forgotten Voices of the Great War season at the Pleasance Theatre, London. Patience has written and performs a one-woman show called A Tale That Is Told based on the life and work of the Norfolk novelist Mary E Mann.