Saskia Reeves was born on 16 August 1961[1][2] to a Dutch mother and English father, and brought up in Twickenham and Paddington, London.
She discovered "drama school" as an alternative to university that didn't require A-levels; it sounded like "brilliant fun" and would give her three years to figure out her future.
[3] Early in her career Reeves performed in puppet shows[5] and in satirical revues at the Covent Garden Community Theatre.
(1995); Butterfly Kiss (1995) co-starring with Amanda Plummer – described in the New York Times as "a disturbing road movie that suggests a twisted British answer to 'Thelma and Louise' spiced with dashes of 'Heavenly Creatures' and 'Natural Born Killers'";[9] and Our Kind of Traitor (2016).
[12] In 2011, Reeves played the matriarch, Anna Brangwen, in the first part of William Ivory's two-part adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, first shown on BBC Four.