As a child, Henrietta was often told of her gift in performance and great stage presence and her earliest memories are of declaring that she would be an Actress.
After a 2 year course in Performing Arts (Distinction in Acting ), age 17 Henrietta was offered several call-backs and offers from the 3 top Accredited London Drama Schools, LAMDA, RADA, Webber Douglas Academy Dramatic Arts… and due to the honour of being picked as the 1 student to represent Webber Douglas for a prestigious Scholarship from the Mackintosh Foundation to cover the 1st year, she chose to attend Webber Douglas.
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Before her final year began, she decided upon a whim that she had only known education and so rather than continue the Drama School route, Henrietta left Acting and embarked upon a 20 year adventure to find her Truth. Armed with her passport and little else, Henrietta went travelling the World in search of the life experience so essential to an actor and she certainly exceeded her own expectations….
Having settled down in the Netherlands with her partner and 2 young sons, Henrietta was compelled to return, almost 20 years later to her 1st love; Acting. She was warmly welcomed and has enjoyed several paid albeit short assignments as well as a handful of short films and notably her return to the stage in a production of Oedipus Rex where Henrietta received high praise for her portrayal as THE PALACE MESSENGER.
January 2015, after performing to great review, in Oedipus Rex, it was clear that all these years later Acting is her one true love, her vocation and calling in life.
Acting for Henrietta is almost a spiritual experience whereby you become a vessel for life force to communicate love since when you truly love what you do and do it for no other reason than that, it is the greatest act of service you can give to others.
When you enter (as Stanislavski coined the phrase) the Creative State, you become so immersed in your characters life that you and the Show feels ‘’real’’ and you and your audience are suddenly caught up in something with its own ‘’Energy’’ – you begin to feed off the energy of the audience, just as the audience feeds from your energy and this transference of Energy…. Of Life-Force is ”Lightening in a Bottle” – A gift that makes life worth living – it is this passion that drives me.
Henrietta is seeking acting roles across all mediums; Stage, Screen (shorts, feature films) and VOICEOVER work.