British actress (born 1942)
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 Bangalore, British India, the daughter of Peter John Wilkinson and his wife Patricia Carteret (Strahan). She was educated at Arts Educational Schools in Tring, Hertfordshire (now the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts), where she trained for the stage.
In 1974, she married the television and film director Christopher Morahan They were together for over forty years and often worked together. The couple had two daughters, theatre director Rebecca and actress Hattie Morahan. In June 2019, Carteret spoke about living with bipolar disorder since she was a teenager.
Theatre career.
Carteret's extensive life in the theatre from 1964 to 2015 is catalogued in the British online database "Theatricalia".
Films, radio and television.
Carteret is best known for her role as police inspector Kate Longton in the BBC's long-running 1980s television series "Juliet Bravo".
Other television credits include "The Saint", "The Pallisers", Frederic Raphael's "The Glittering Prizes", "Eskimo Day", "Star Maidens", "Peak Practice", "Holby City", and "Casualty". In 1990, she was a contestant on "Cluedo", facing off against John Stalker.
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 Welsh Christian animated television series "" 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.
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