Early Years
After completing my training at RADA, I landed a variety of small roles in TV and on stage, including Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw at the Mermaid Theatre. These led to a series of leading roles, including the title role in Lorna Doone opposite Bill Travers and a starring part in my first major film The System opposite Oliver Reed.
My career started to take off and I starred in more films such as the cult ‘horror’ movie Hands of the Ripper opposite Eric Porter, Night of the Big Heat opposite Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and Carmilla in which I played the title role.
Action adventure TV series were very popular at this time and I had strong roles in many of them, including The Saint, Danger Man, The Prisoner, The Avengers, The Baron and Man in a Suitcase.
Major television drama credits include the role of Julia in George Orwell’s 1984, David Mercer’s Morgan - A Suitable case for Treatment, and The Birth of a Private Man, and Robert Muller’s The World that Summer.
I had a major starring part in the ITV series Hadleigh in an ongoing role opposite Gerald Harper and Michael Billington and played opposite Ed Bishop in an episode of the science fiction series U.F.O.
Theatre roles included Arnold Wesker’s The Kitchen at the Royal Court, Raina in Arms and the Man, Mermaid Theatre, London, The Kings Mare with Glynis Johns in London’s West End and Country Dance opposite Edward Fox.
These early years culminated in the role of ‘Alais’ in the film of The Lion in Winter co-starring with Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn and Anthony Hopkins, which earned me a Golden Globe nomination. |
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I played leading star guest roles in many popular U.S. shows including: Airwolf, The Incredible Hulk, The Six Million Dollar Man, Mission Impossible, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Hart to Hart, Magnum PI, McGyver and Mannix starring with Tom Selleck, Peter Graves (right) Buddy Ebsen, Robert Wagner, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Bill Bixby, Lee Majors amongst others. 