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EARLY LIFE Kingston grew up in and went on to join the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company . CAREER Kingston has appeared in a number of British produced television Drama s, including '' Crocodile Shoes '', '' Moll Flanders '' and '' The Knock ''. She has also guest starred on '' The Bill ''. In 1997, Kingston gained public television fame after being cast on the medical drama ER at the start of the fourth season. Her character Elizabeth Corday was a British surgeon fellow arriving from England . This role she played for just over seven seasons until leaving in 2004, four episodes into Season 11. Her film credits include '' The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover '' (1989), ''A Pin for the Butterfly'' (1994), '' Croupier '' (1998), and ''Boudica (Warrior Queen in the USA)'' (2003) in which she played Boudica . Kingston, while no longer acting on Television , has made several TV movies as well as a few major motion pictures. In 2006, she starred opposite Christian Slater in the West End (London, England) production of '' One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest '', playing Nurse Ratched to Slater's Randle Patrick McMurphy (characters famously portrayed by Louise Fletcher and Jack Nicholson in the 1975 Film Of The Same Name ). In 2006, Kingston claimed she was turned down for a role on . FAMILY Kingston met actor Ralph Fiennes while both were students at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. They were together for ten years before marrying in 1993. They divorced in 1997, after Fiennes left her for actress Francesca Annis , 18 years his senior. Kingston married her second husband, German writer and freelance journalist Florian Haertel, in 1998. They met the previous year on a blind date arranged by mutual friends.http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1244227,00.html They have one child together, Salome Violetta, born March 28, 2001. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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