Personal Info
Maria Aitken
Acting
Biography
Aitken was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Sir William Aitken, a Conservative MP, and Penelope Aitken, whose father was John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby. Her grandfather was the UK Representative to Ireland (1939–49). She is a great-niece of newspaper magnate and war-time minister Lord Beaverbrook, and sister to former Conservative cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken. She attended Riddlesworth Hall Preparatory School in Norfolk, Sherborne School for Girls in Dorset and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she graduated with a degree in English Language and Literature.
She has directed several p…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Asylum
as Claudia Greene
Jinnah
as Edwina
Dare To Dream: The Making of Jinnah
as Self
Fierce Creatures
as Di Admin
The Grotesque
as Lavinia Freebody
The Fool
as Lady Amelia
A Fish Called Wanda
as Wendy
Half Moon Street
as The Hon. Maura Hardcastle
Bedroom Farce
as Susannah
Don't Be Silly
as Ellie Bloom
TV Shows
Love on a Branch Line
as Lady Flamborough · 4 ep.
Poor Little Rich Girls
as Kate Codd · 7 ep.
Wogan
as Self · 1 ep.
Jemima Shore Investigates
24 ep.
Romance
1 ep.
Crown Court
as Jocelyn Bennington · 3 ep.
The Edwardians
as Jean Conan Doyle · 1 ep.
The Regiment
as Dorothy Saunders · 7 ep.
Justice
as Lady Beste · 1 ep.
Manhunt
as Madame Leonard · 1 ep.