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Anna Carteret (born 11 December 1942) is a British stage and screen actress.


Biography

Carteret was born as Annabelle S. Wilkinson on 11 December 1942 in
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, the daughter of Peter John Wilkinson and his wife Patricia Carteret (Strahan). She was educated at Arts Educational Schools in
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, Hertfordshire (now the
Tring Park School for the Performing Arts Tring Park School for the Performing Arts is an independent co-educational school offering specialist courses in Dance, Commercial Music, Musical Theatre and Acting for 8–19 year olds. Originally known as the Arts Educational School, Tring Pa ...
), where she trained for the stage. She was married to the television and film director
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for over forty years and often worked with him. The couple had two daughters, theatre director Rebecca and actress Hattie Morahan. In June 2019, Carteret spoke for the first time about living with
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since she was a teenager.


Films, radio and television

Anna Carteret is best known for her role as police inspector Kate Longton in the
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's long-running 1980s television series ''
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''. Other television credits include: '' The Saint'', ''
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's ''
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'', '' Eskimo Day'', '' Star Maidens'', ''
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'', '' Holby City'', and ''
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''. In 1990, she was a contestant on ''
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'', facing off against
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. Films since 1959, include '' Dateline Diamonds'' (1965), '' The Plank'' (1967) and '' Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont'' (2005). In 2012, she appeared in '' Private Peaceful''. She portrayed Vivanti in ''Cats and Monkeys'', co-starring with Jack Shepherd in a radio version of Catherine Shepherd's stage play, for BBC Radio 4's The Afternoon Play last broadcast on 19 November 2007.


Voice acting

Carteret has also voiced Miriam in the British/Welsh Christian animated television series '' Testament: The Bible in Animation'' and every female character in the British children's television series '' Forget Me Not Farm'' (Following the death of Mike Amatt (1949 - 2021, aged 71) who played Scarecrow, she is now the last surviving cast member of the show). Both of these shows aired on the BBC in the UK but only ''Testament'' aired on S4C in Wales.


References


Sources

* ''Who's Who in the Theatre''; 17th ed. Gale (1981) * ''The National: The Theatre and its Work 1963–1997'' by
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, Nick Hern Books/NT (1997) * ''
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'' and ''Theatre Record'' annual indexes


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carteret, Anna 1942 births Living people 20th-century British actresses 21st-century British actresses Actresses from Bangalore British film actresses British radio actresses British stage actresses British television actresses British voice actresses People educated at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts People from Tring People with bipolar disorder