Abigail Thaw

Abigail Thaw was born in London to John Thaw and Sally Alexander in October 1965. She was brought up by her mother and stepfather, Gareth Stedman Jones in a house in Pimlico. The Philippa Lowthorpe film "Misbehaviour" is loosely based on these early years. Alexander was an active member of the women's movement and Abigail would often go on marches with her mother and the other families in the house. She would visit her father regularly, taking trips up north to see her paternal grandfather in Manchester. Abigail has a half-brother, Daniel (by her mother and Gareth Stedman Jones), a stepbrother, Joseph, as well as a stepsister Melanie Thaw and her half-sister Joanna Thaw (born to John Thaw and his wife Sheila Hancock). After graduating from school, Abigail spent a year in Italy. After her return, she went to RADA, two years behind her stepsister Melanie. At RADA, she met her long-term partner Nigel Whitmey. They married in 2015. Abigail worked with her stepsister Melanie in the Royal Exchange Theatre production of Pride and Prejudice in 1991. In 1997, she gave birth to her daughter Molly-Mae. Shortly after Molly's birth Abigail starred in BBC1's Vanity Fair (1998). In 2003 she gave birth to her second child, daughter Talia. She also starred alongside her stepmother in the play "Arab/Israeli Cookbook".She wrote a poem called father's 60th birthday present, which she read at her father's memorial service that is published in her stepmother's book, "The Two Of Us".