Actors - Ninette Micallef

Ninette Micallef Ninette Micallef has been on the boards since the age of six but her real public debut was in August 1968 during a festival of Greek Drama in the play ‘The Poet and the Women.’ Since then she has never looked back and has been very active on stage as well as on the radio and on TV playing a variety of roles in every genre of play – from Lorca to Chekov to Moliere and Ayckbourn. She has gained vast experience from working with most of the top local directors and for most of the major theatre companies in Malta at the Manoel Theatre and elsewhere. She is an experienced Shakespearean actress, having taken part in no less than 15 productions at San Anton Gardens playing leads such as Juliet, Desdemona, Olivia, Miranda, Isabella, Titania and Portia. Her most memorable roles on stage include Abigail in The Crucible, Sandy in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Annie in Table Manners, Adele in Bernarda Alba, Lennie in Crimes of the Heart, Hodle in Fiddler on the Roof, Rose in God's Favourite, Sonya in Uncle Vanya, , Ruth in Blithe Spirit and more recently Sister Helen in Dead Man Walking, Enid in a Chorus of Disapproval, The Mother in Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Mary in Five Kinds of Silence. Plays in Maltese she took part in are numerous, a few of these are: Il-Marid Immaginarju, Il-Hadd Fuq il-Bejt, Lisistrata, Medea, Il-Parlament Tan-Nisa, Mid-Djarju ta’ Sara, Tkun Darb’Ohra Mikelang, Trappisti, Antigone, and Is-Surmast Television credits include: “Id-Dar tas-Soru”, “Leli ta’ Haz-Zghir”, “Meta Jonfoh ix-Xlokk”, “Il-Hadd fuq il-Bejt”, “Sefora”, “Is-Surmast”, “Mid-Djarju ta’ Sara”, “Villa Sunset”, “Gideb u Mhabba”, “L-Agenzija” and “Dejjem Tieghek Becky”. A highlight of her career was when she took part in two productions with Atturi Theatre Group at the Gogol Theatre – Moscow in 1991 as part of Malta Week. Was a student at MTADA (Manoel Theatre Academy of Dramatic Art) between 1977 and 1979; and drama teacher with the Education Department for a number of years.