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Alison Pargeter (born 31 May 1972) is an English actress who played the roles of stalker

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Career

Television appearances

Pargeter has made several guest appearances over the years, she has appeared in the Channel 5 Horror series '' Urban Gothic'', the long-running

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'', and ''

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''. Between that time in 2004, she played a recurring role which was Martin Fowler's stalker

in ''

'', who appeared in 21 episodes, She was a barmaid who worked in Angie's Den club, and tried to split Martin Fowler up from his wife Sonia following a drunken night together. She exited the series following a fight where she accidentally stabbed Martin and got committed to a mental institution. Since leaving ''

'' she moved back, and returned to doing guest appearances again, including ''

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comedy series ''

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'', and returned for a second guest appearance in ''

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comedy series '' Pete Versus Life'', ''

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''. In 2004 she appeared in the television advertisement for

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bitter "Annie, I'm not your Daddy" which starred

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'': Village. she later played a role as a house wife for TV commercial ''Volvic Juicy'' drink back in 2015, at the end of 2018, she appeared as playing the role of mother of three children with her husband as part of an ''

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'' Christmas Advert, on a really important mission complete their Christmas shopping, In time for Christmas, and more recently, she played the role of a Vampire for an ''

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'' Commercial, advertising veggie burgers.

Films

Pargeter has appeared in seven films such as ''

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'' (2003), ''Mad George'' (2004), ''

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'' (2007), '' Reuniting the Rubins'' (2010), ''The National Union of Space People'' (2016), ''

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'' (2018) and the upcoming movie called ''Shafted'', which is currently still in pre-production.

Theatre

During 1997, Pargeter starred in the stage play ''Dinosaur Rock'', and between 1999 to 2000, she ended up spending a year touring in the musical '' Grease'' playing the role of Jan who was one of the Pink Ladies. Pargeter was a member of the Stephen Joseph Theatre Company in

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, where she was directed by

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in a trilogy of plays known collectively as ''

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'', which subsequently transferred to the West End. For this, she won Best Newcomer in the

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and was nominated for an Evening Standard award, Manchester Evening News Award and a Whatsonstage Award. Later parts include ''

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'', again written and directed by

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; ''

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'' at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, for which she was nominated for a second

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award; In June 2005, she played title role of

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in '' The Countess'', playing opposite

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at the Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly. In 2008 she recorded the voice of 'Wendy Darling' in a musical adaptation of ''Peter Pan'' with the music lyrics by Dallison/Wherry and was also narrated by Joe Parquale as 'Smee'. Pargeter has starred in several Christmas Pantomimes for children over the years, she appeared in ''Alice in Wonderland'', ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' and ''Cinderella''. In July 2011 Pargeter played the role of Gertrude Riall at the

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in a

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's play called ''

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''. Between February and June 2013, Pargeter went on A National Tour, touring eleven theatres around parts of the UK, and played the role of Eliante in the Roger McGough's play called ''The Misanthrope'' and on 10 March 2013 The Misanthrope also went live from the Everyman Playhouse and English Touring Theatre on BBC Radio 3. Between 2013 and 2016, she appeared in two more stage plays including ''Sex Cells'' and her more recent was ''All My Sons''.

Filmography

Films

TV

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pargeter, Alison Living people People from Oxford 1972 births English soap opera actresses English television actresses 20th-century English actresses 21st-century English actresses