Background
Abigail Thaw was born in London to actor John Thaw and his first wife Sally Alexander, an academic/feminist activist who taught modern history at Goldsmiths College. On her mother"s side, she has a half-brother (Daniel), and on her father"s side, she has an elder stepsister (Melanie Jane) and a half-sister (Joanna). After her parents" divorce in 1968, Abigail was brought up in Pimlico by her mother and her mother"s boyfriend, Gareth Stedman Jones.
Her father also kept regular contact.
Education
Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist
Career
Her stepmother is actress Sheila Hancock. After school she spent a year in Italy, where she was in a car accident. She started her career working in representative at Cheltenham, York, and Salisbury, then performed with the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Exchange Theatre and Library in Manchester, Chichester, The Tricycle, The Gate, Theatre 503, The Orange Tree, Battersea Arts Centre, New End, The Finborough, Birmingham, Theatre Clywd, Watford and extensive touring in Whipping lieutenant Up, Ladies in Lavender and Entertaining Angels.
She performed as Mississippi
Capulet in Tom Morris" Juliet and her Romeo at the Bristol Old Victoria She performed Cymbeline with Mark Rylance at The Globe Theatre and Brooklyn Academy of Music. She also spent a year working with Mike Alfred"s company, "Method and Madness" performing Private Lives, Jude the Obscure and Flesh and Blood.
She was at South Playhouse early this year (2015) in the world premiere of Michael Hastings" "The Cutting of the Cloth".
She has also worked in television since 1990, in The Bill, Casualty, Pie in the Sky, Peak Practice, Spywatch, Big Bad World, Vanity Fair, Love Soup, Trust, Midsomer Murders and Poirot. She is also in the comedy series "I Want My Wife Back" for the British Broadcasting Corporation. She played a newspaper editor in the ITV1 2011 Christmas special edition of Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour, a role she continued in Series 1, 2 and 3.
In 2014, Thaw appeared in The Inbetweeners 2 as a shaman.
