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Selina Jane Cadell is an English actress. She is the younger sister of actor Simon Cadell and granddaughter of actress Jean Cadell. She is the great niece of the Scottish artist Francis Cadell.
Her film career has included roles in Not Quite Paradise (1985), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), The Madness of King George (1994), Mrs. Dalloway (1997), Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War (2002), Match Point (2005) and Snow Cake (2006).
In 2015, she directed the Royal Shakespeare Company's first production of Love for Love by William Congreve.
In 2009's "Allegory of Love", S3:E1 of Lewis, she played Professor Bernice "Bernie" Rutherford. She played Pamela Bennett in "Among the Few", a 2011 episode of Foyle's War. In 2012, she briefly appeared in the remake of Gambit. In 2013, she appeared as Sister Gregory, a Roman Catholic nun, in the Father Brown episode "The Bride of Christ". She played the title role as the vanishing lady herself, Miss Froy, the character previously played by May Whitty and Angela Lansbury in the previous two versions, in the 2013 TV film The Lady Vanishes from the BBC, directed by Diarmuid Lawrence from an updated screenplay by Fiona Seres. She appeared as Professor Alice Sandwell in New Tricks episode "Buried Treasure" (S4:E6). In 2019, Cadell appeared in the Acorn TV series Queens of Mystery.
In 2017, Cadell revealed that the American actress Sigourney Weaver has been her good friend for more than 40 years. They appeared together onscreen when Weaver guest starred in Doc Martin.
In October 2019, Cadell was the guest on an episode of the BBC Radio 3 programme Private Passions. Cadell made a third appearance as Venetia Butts in Midsomer Murders 'Book of the Dead' (2023).
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