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Angela Down (born 15 June 1946) is an English actress. She is known for her role in the
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drama programme ''
Take Three Girls
''Take Three Girls'' is a television drama series broadcast by BBC1 between 1969 and 1971 that follows three young women sharing a flat in " Swinging London" (located at 17 Glazbury Road, West Kensington, W14). It was BBC1's first colour drama s ...
'' portraying
cockney
Cockney is an accent and dialect of English, mainly spoken in London and its environs, particularly by working-class and lower middle-class Londoners. The term "Cockney" has traditionally been used to describe a person from the East End, or ...
art student Avril for the first series before being replaced in the second.
Career
Down played a leading role as Princess Maria in the 15-hour BBC version of Leo Tolstoy's ''
War and Peace
''War and Peace'' (russian: Война и мир, translit=Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: ; ) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy that mixes fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy. It was first published ...
'' (1972), starred as
Sylvia Pankhurst
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was a campaigning English feminist and socialist. Committed to organising working-class women in London's East End, and unwilling in 1914 to enter into a wartime political truce with t ...
in the BBC's ''
Shoulder to Shoulder'' (1974), as Joyce Bradley in the television adaptation of Frederick Raphael’s ''
The Glittering Prizes
''The Glittering Prizes'' is a British television drama by Frederic Raphael about the changing lives of a group of Cambridge students, starting in 1952 and following them through to middle age in the 1970s. It was first broadcast on BBC2 in Jan ...
'' (1976) and played teacher Myra Bawne in the 1980 BBC drama serial ''
We, the Accused
''We, the Accused'' is a 1935 crime novel by the British writer Ernest Raymond. It is inspired by the Edwardian era Doctor Crippen case. The novel is written to engage the reader's sympathy for the murderous protagonists.
Synopsis
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'', opposite
Ian Holm
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert (12 September 1931 – 19 June 2020) was an English actor who was knighted in 1998 for his contributions to theatre and film. Beginning his career on the British stage as a standout member of the Royal Shakespeare Company ...
. She performed as Helena in the 1981 ''
BBC Shakespeare'' collection, ''All's Well That Ends Well''.
Her film roles include appearances in ''
The Looking Glass War
''The Looking Glass War'' is a 1965 spy novel by John le Carré. Written in response to the positive public reaction to his previous novel, ''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'', the book explores the unglamorous nature of espionage and the da ...
'' (1970), the cult horror film ''
What Became of Jack and Jill?'' (1972), as Justine Mahler in
Ken Russell's 1974 film ''
Mahler
Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...
'', and as Mrs Cole in the 1996 film ''
Emma'', starring
Gwyneth Paltrow.
Personal life
She is married to the actor Tim Hardy.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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1946 births
Living people
20th-century English actresses
British television actresses
People from Hampstead
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