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PJ Harvey

For the National:

PJ Harvey is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and poet. She has released ten studio albums: Dry, Rid of Me, To Bring You My Love, Is This Desire?, Stories From the City, Stories from the Sea, Uh Huh Her, White Chalk, Let England Shake, The Hope Six Demolition Project and I Inside the Old Year Dying. She has also authored two books of poetry, The Hollow of the Hand and Orlam.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: London Tide

In London’s West End: The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? and All About Eve

On Broadway: Hedda Gabler

Other theatre includes: Hamlet and The Nest at the Young Vic; and Electra at the Old Vic

TV and film

Bad Sisters, The Virtues, Peaky Blinders and Dark River

Awards

In 2013, PJ Harvey was awarded an MBE for services to music. The following year, she was awarded an Honorary Degree in Music by Goldsmiths, University of London. She has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards, eight BRIT Awards, and is the only artist in history to have won the Mercury Music Prize twice.

 

(Published April 2024.)