Fidelis Morgan is a talented English actress and writer, whose impressive career has spanned various stages, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and repertory productions in British cities, as well as the West End transfer of Noël Coward's The Vortex.
Morgan's writing talents extend to stage plays, with adaptations of Pamela and Hangover Square, and non-fiction works, including The Female Wits, the first comprehensive study of female playwrights of the Restoration stage, and biographies of women from the 17th and 18th centuries, such as Charlotte Charke. Her novels include the Countess Ashby de la Zouche series of historical crime mysteries, including The Rival Queens.
Born in a gypsy caravan situated in the grounds of the ancient Abbey of Amesbury, halfway between Stonehenge and Woodhenge, Morgan's parents were displaced Liverpudlians who settled in Amesbury, where her father worked as a dentist and her mother was a painter.
On television, Morgan has appeared in notable shows such as As Time Goes By, Jeeves and Wooster, Dead Gorgeous, and Mr Majeika, and has also directed numerous theatre productions at prestigious drama schools across the UK.
Morgan's novels have garnered recognition, including the Countess Ashby de la Zouche series, which consists of Unnatural Fire (2000),The Rival Queens (2001),The Ambitious Stepmother (2002),and Fortune's Slave (2004). The Rival Queens received a nomination for a Lefty Award for the most humorous mystery novels published in the U.S. in 2002 by Left Coast Crime, California, in 2003.
