Rebecca Grant is mainly known for playing series regular ‘Daisha Anderson’ in BBC1’s Bafta award winning program, Holby City and Shaheen Wazir in Tiger Aspect’s ‘Prisoners Wives II’. She received an award for ‘Best Actress in a lead role’ at the International Filmmakers Festival for World Cinema in an Independent Movie called ‘Kristina’. She has just finished playing the lead in ‘Chakara’ a film by Laidback Films starring opposite Ben Richards, Kasia Nossier and Rez Kempton.Rebecca has had a succession of compelling and challenging theatrical roles and received many rave reviews in national newspapers. These included ‘Nurse Flynn’ in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ , ‘Magic Wanda’ in Immodesty and Walter’s Burlesque!’ and ‘Tagores Women’ for Kali Theatre and ‘Bombay Dreams’ all in the heart of London’s West-end. She was cast as ‘Viola’ in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at The Royal in Northampton then called back a few months later to play the feisty American-Canadian rebel ‘Jean’ in JB Priestly’s ‘The Glass Cage’. Throughout her extensive theatrical and TV roles she has had the pleasure of working opposite Robert Powell, Patsy Kensit, Christian Slater, Eddie Izzard and Martin Freeman.
Rebecca Grant
Movies
Brothers
Before leaving on his second tour in Afghanistan, Marine Captain Sam Cahill, a leader, an athlete, a good husband and father, welcomes his screw-up brother Tommy home from prison. He’d robbed a bank. In country, Sam’s helicopter is shot down and all are presumed dead. Back home, while Sam wastes…
Fun Facts
Has two sisters - model Angela Grant and actress Rachel Grant (who played Bond girl 'Peaceful Fountains of Desire' in the Bond Film Die Another Day (2002)).
Rebecca was born in Nottingham, United Kingdom. Her father the Baron De Longueuil, a doctor and artist, is of English-Scottish, French-Canadian descent. Her great grandmother Ernestine was 1st cousin to the Queen Mother and grew up with the Queen Mother in Glamis Castle in Scotland. Thus, Rebecca and her siblings are third cousins of Elizabeth II. Her mother is from the Philippines and brought up three children Angela, Rachel and Rebecca in Nottingham where they trained locally in the arts. She works as a costume-maker and translator.
She is of mixed British, Spanish and Asian origin.