Education
Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist
Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist
Madden is best known internationally for her multiple leading Agatha Christie, Shakespeare, and Tom Stoppard roles filmed for television, and for her performance as Marianne Dashwood in the 1971 British Broadcasting Corporation miniseries adaption of Jane Austen"s Sense and Sensibility. She appeared in more than 30 television series, teleplays, made-for-television movies, and television miniseries, including a starring performance in the miniseries A Married Manitoba (1984) opposite Anthony Hopkins. She also had major roles in five feature films.
She had originally trained at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford prior to enrolling at RADA. In the late 1990s she gave up acting and returned to painting, focusing on portraits, and received a diploma from the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London.
She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), and is an Associate Member of the academy.