Fritha Goodey

Fritha Goodey
Born	Fritha Jane Goodey (1972-10-23)23 October 1972 Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England
Died	7 September 2004(2004-09-07) (aged 31) London, England
Alma mater	London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actress

Fritha Jane Goodey (23 October 1972 – 7 September 2004) was a British stage, radio and film actress known for her performance in the film About a Boy (2002), in which she played one of Hugh Grant's character's former girlfriends.

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All for one and one for all! Fiona. Will! We haven't seen you for a while. How's Ned? Who? Oh, uh-- He's a load of crap. Doesn't exist. Yeah. I made him up. You made him up? Yeah, to meet women. You're sick. Yeah. Fiona, I've gotta talk to you. go ahead. No. You know, properly talk to you. Privately. No. This is, uh-- This is a circle of truth. Whatever you have to say, you can say it in front of everybody. Okay. Um-- Please don't try and commit suicide again. I can't believe you just said that. That is my private experience. That's the thing, isn't it? It's not, because Marcus is worried about you... and I'm worried about Marcus because he's worried about you. I don't have plans to commit suicide. You don't? Not at the moment, no. Great. Great. Good. Will, you know I'm not attracted to you, right? Huh? What are you on about now? What are you, nuts? All right. Wrong word completely. But that's, you know, something that we should talk about a bit. This crying-in-the-morning thing, this depression. Let's get that fixed. That's what men think, isn't it? What? Oh, that unless you've got the answer... unless you can say, "I know this bloke on the Essex Road that can fix that, " then there's no point bothering. No. Well, yeah, okay. I'd love to know the name of the bloke on Essex Road... because I've got a feeling I'd-I'd be useless, but-- Will, you're not useless. You're-- Well, you're here, and that matters. Right.

Early life

Goodey was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Career

Goodey's stage work, most notably with Max Stafford-Clark's Out of Joint touring company, included Nadia in Some Explicit Polaroids (1999), Odette in Remembrance of Things Past (2000), Constance Neville in She Stoops to Conquer (2002) and Mrs. Garrick in A Laughing Matter. She had recently won a coveted role in a revival staging of Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy.^[1]

Her radio works include The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes episode The Determined Client and Helena Justina in the serialisation of the Falco novel "The Silver Pigs".

Death

Having struggled with anorexia for years, on 7 September 2004 Goodey took her own life in Notting Hill, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, by stabbing herself in the chest. She was 31 years old.^[2] Her funeral was at the West London Crematorium, Kensal Green.