As the starchy vicar's wife who romped with Hugh Grant and farmboy Mark
Gerber in Sirens, Tara Fitzgerald was not in the least evangelical about
nudity. Wriggling around in the buff, she says, is much more comfortable
than taping bedsheets to her skin. And besides, "I don't think anything
I have done has done me any harm"
Hardly. Dubbed Britain's Greta Scacchi for her naked frolics in several
UK TV series, Fitzgerald, 27, is now on Broadway playing Ophelia opposite
Ralph Fiennes's Hamlet and has done another film with Grant, The Englishman
Who Went Up A Hill but Came Down a Mountain.
Kate Reardon, Tatler magazine's style director, says of her friend
Tara: "If she's not already 'a great actress', she is certainly on the
springboard"
Fitzgerald is not so enthusiastic. "I quite like my neck but the rest
of my body I'm indifferent to". She has said she hates her hands and her
skin bruises easily. The eldest of three daughters of a twice divorced
photographer, her artist father committed suicide when she was 4. Life
is rosier now thanks to fiance Dorian Healy, 31, the dashing star of Soldier,
Soldier. With the wedding planned for around July, Fitzgerald's dream is
for "the big white one". The icing on the cake would surely be a piece
of Hollywood. But no. The girl who admitted using film scripts sent from
LA as "jotting pads" says she "hates the idea of promoting myself. Elizabeth
Hurley's dresses would look dreadful on me".
