Ariadne Oliver: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Character in the novels of Agatha Christie.}}

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| portrayer = [[Lally Bowers]]<br />[[Jean Stapleton]]<br />[[Zoë Wanamaker]]<br />[[Julia McKenzie]]<br />[[Stephanie Cole]]<br />[[Tina Fey]]

| family = Alice (aunt)<br />Celia Ravenscroft (goddaughter)

'''Ariadne Oliver''' is a fictional character in the novels of [[Agatha Christie]]. She (like Christie) is a [[Crimecrime fiction|mystery]] novelist, the creator of the fictional Finnish detective Sven Hjerson, and a friend of [[Hercule Poirot]].

The first television appearance of Ariadne Oliver on television was in an episode of ''The Agatha Christie Hour'' (1982). In an adaptation of the Parker Pyne story "The Case of the Discontented Soldier", she was portrayed by [[Lally Bowers]].

A 1986 television film adaptation of ''[[Dead Man's Folly (film)|Dead Man's Folly]]'' starred [[Jean Stapleton]] as Ariadne Oliver, opposite [[Peter Ustinov]] as Poirot. This iteration of Oliver is American.

[[Zoë Wanamaker]] played Ariadne Oliver in six television episodes of the series ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot]]'', starring [[David Suchet]] as [[Hercule Poirot]]. In the last shot episode of the series (but not the finale), Mrs Oliver is helpful to Poirot in an adaptation of ''[[Dead Man's Folly]]'', which was filmed on the Christie Estate.

In the [[BBC Radio 4]] plays, Ariadne Oliver has been played by [[Stephanie Cole]] (''The Pale Horse'' (1993),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2826252534f14d6887dc5d9b8514e054|title=Saturday Night Theatre: The Pale Horse|website=BBC Genome: Radio Times|publisher=BBC|date=2020|access-date=3 April 2020}}</ref> ''[[Hallowe'en Party]]'' (1993),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d265907af9da46f4bc782d31c2dc4acb|title=Saturday Night Theatre: Hallowe'en Party|website=BBC Genome: Radio Times|publisher=BBC|date=2020|access-date=3 April 2020}}</ref> and ''Cards on the Table'' (2002)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7ae1a2473c3941f382bfb83368abdadc|title=The Saturday Play: Agatha Christie's Cards on the Table|website=BBC Genome: Radio Times|publisher=BBC|date=2020|access-date=3 April 2020}}</ref>), and by [[Julia McKenzie]] (''Elephants Can Remember'' (2006),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/4f0d9cc9d3a4470e9df3a451779e3322|title=The Saturday Play: Agatha Christie's Elephants Can Remember|website=BBC Genome: Radio Times|publisher=BBC|date=2020|access-date=3 April 2020}}</ref> ''[[Mrs McGinty's Dead]]'' (2006),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/dc4e7a64f7d449899081eb3503b738ca|title=Agatha Christie's Mrs McGinty's Dead|website=BBC Genome: Radio Times|publisher=BBC|date=2020|access-date=3 April 2020}}</ref> and ''Dead Man's Folly'' (2007)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/93c05021787b4077a01cc498cd9bbc16|title=Agatha Christie's Dead Man's Folly|website=BBC Genome: Radio Times|publisher=BBC|date=2020|access-date=3 April 2020}}</ref>).

[[Tina Fey]] will portrayportrays Oliver in the 2023 film ''[[A Haunting in Venice]]''., Shebased ison played''Hallowe'en asParty'', opposite [[Kenneth Branagh]]'s Poirot. Here, Oliver is an American looking for a new idea for her next book.