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About Julia Wilson-Dickson
- Julia Wilson-Dickson (2 August 1949 – 16 October 2015) was a British voice and dialect coach whose students included some of the best known actors in film and theater during her career.
- Dialect coaches help an actor learn an accent by breaking the accent down into separate components, which can be taught individually.In film, Wilson-Dickson was the dialect coach for Robert de Niro in the 1994 film, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Helena Bonham Carter for the 1995 romantic comedy, Mighty Aphrodite; Julianne Moore for The End of the Affair in 1999; and Glenn Close in the 2011 film, Albert Nobbs.
- Most recently, Wilson-Dickson coached actor Eddie Redmayne to prepare for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in the 2014 biopic, The Theory of Everything.
- Redmayne won an Academy Award for Best Actor at the 87th Academy Awards for his performance.Much of her coaching for stage productions involved collaborations with Peter Hall's production company.
- She coached Vanessa Redgrave for her portrayal of Lady Torrance in Orpheus Descending at the Haymarket Theatre in 1988; Dustin Hoffman for his role of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at the Phoenix Theatre in 1989; as well as Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench for their title roles in Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre in 1987.Wilson-Dickson was born in Brighton to Philip Wilson-Dickson, a civil servant in the Home Office, and Olivia (née Rudder), an actress.
- She was the sister of Andrew Wilson-Dickson.
- She attended Guildford High School, an all-girls school in Surrey, and the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where her mother had also studied.
- Wilson-Dickson later taught speech at the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1974 to 1987.Wilson-Dickson died from a brain haemorrhage on 16 October 2015, at the age of 66.
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