Star of Spooks and Sherlock to Open Bedford Park Festival
Lara Pulver has recently moved to Chiswick from Los Angeles
Lara Pulver
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June 1, 2024
This year’s Green Days at the 58th Bedford Park Festival is to be officially opened by Lara Pulver an actor best known for appearing in Spooks and Sherlock.
She has recently moved to Chiswick with her family and agreed to do the honours on Saturday 8 June.
Her range of TV and film performances also includes The Split and Maternal, she is also well known for her work on stage. She won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gypsy in the West End, in which she played Louise, and was also nominated for an Olivier for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in the Donmar Warehouse production of Parade.
“We’re very much enjoying finding our way around Chiswick and getting to meet lots of lovely folk along the way” she said. “It has a real community feel - and this will be a wonderful way to begin our Bedford Park adventure.”
Lara will open the Festival at 11am on Saturday 8 June at the Green Days Fete & Craft Fair, opposite St Michael & All Angels Church and Turnham Green tube station. She’ll then judge the children’s fancy dress competition, this year on the theme of Narnia and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
She and her husband, Homeland and Spooks actor Raza Jaffrey, have moved from Los Angeles to Chiswick with their two young children. This summer she will be appearing in Fiddler on the Roof at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
She is the latest in a long line of Chiswick actors and broadcasters to open the Bedford Park Festival over the past 40 years following broadcaster Nicki Chapman (RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Radio 2) who opened last year’s Festival and Alex Jones (The One Show) the year before.
The two-day Green Days Fete & Craft Fair (8 and 9 June) is the Bedford Park Festival’s opening weekend and will feature the usual array of bands, refreshments and stalls, supported by many local companies.
Profits will support St Michael & All Angels Church, which runs the Festival as part of its mission of community outreach, and its three 2024 charities: The Upper Room, helping the needy in Shepherd’s Bush; Swinfen Telemedicine, which links specialist medical expertise to doctors and nurses in remote regions of the world; and Crosslight Chiswick, which provides face-to-face debt advice, together with money education and budgeting support to individuals and families in need.
Read more and book tickets at www.bedfordparkfestival.org.
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