Anna Carteret

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Anna Carteret
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Carteret at the Empty Space Awards, Young Vic Theatre in 2007
Born
Annabelle S. Wilkinson [1]

(1942-12-11) 11 December 1942 (age 81)
NationalityBritish
Years active1964–present
Spouse Christopher Morahan (1974–2017; his death)
Children2, including Hattie Morahan
Parent(s)Peter John Wilkinson
Patricia Strahan

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

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Biography

Carteret was born as Annabelle S. Wilkinson [1] 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 [1] They were together for over forty years and often worked together. The couple had two daughters, theatre director Rebecca [2] and actress Hattie Morahan. [3] In June 2019, Carteret spoke about living with bipolar disorder since she was a teenager. [4]

Theatre career

Carteret's extensive life in the theatre from 1964 to 2015 is catalogued in the British online database Theatricalia. [5]

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 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.

Selected filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1965 Dateline Diamonds Gay JenkinsFilm
1966 ITV Play of the Week Clarissa CrosswaiteThe Reluctant Debutant
1967 The Plank It's Paint WomanShort Film
1969 The Saint Diane HuntleyEpisode: "Portrait of Brenda"
1971 Play for Today CarolThe Pigeon Fancier
1974The Merchant of VeniceNerissaTV Movie
The Pallisers Lady Mabel Grex5 episodes
1976 The Glittering Prizes Barbara Parks/ Barbara Ransome2 episodes
Star Maidens AnnouncerEpisode: "What Have They Done to the Rain?"
1977Fathers and FamiliesClare Cotterill3 episodes
The Sunday DramaFionaThe Man Who Like Elephants
1978Send in the GirlsJoy/ SaraEpisode: "The Wild Bunch"
1982Little Miss PerkinsLaura FitchTV Movie
1983-5 Juliet Bravo Inspector Kate Longton44 episodes
1984 Weekend Playhouse Sarah BurnsChange Partners
1988 Tickets for the Titanic Sandra HopkinsEveryone's a Winner
1989 The Shell Seekers NancyTV Movie
The Heat of the Day ErnestineTV Movie
1991 Ashenden Anna CayporEpisode: "Traitor"
Forget Me Not Farm Various (voice only)13 episodes
1994 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes AnnaEpisode: "The Golden Pince-Nez"
1996 Eskimo Day Harriet LloydTV Movie
Testament: The Bible in Animation Miriam (voice only)Episode: "Moses"
1997Cold Enough for SnowHarriet LloydTV Movie
1999 EastEnders Gillian Mills4 episodes
2000 Peak Practice Dr. Yvonne MitchellEpisode: "One Too Often"
2005 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont ElizabethFilm
2006The Only Boy For MeNanaTV Movie
2010 Poirot Mrs. BabbingtonEpisode: "Three Act Tragedy"
2012 Private Peaceful Colonel's WifeFilm
Dead of the NiteMrs. MatthewsFilm
2014 Lewis Gillian Fernsby2 episodes
2021HiraethBeth SeawardFilm

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References

  1. 1 2 3 1974 marriage registration, freebmd.org.uk (General Register Office of England and Wales). Accessed 13 December 2022.
  2. "Hattie Morahan pulls it off at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards". Evening Standard. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  3. Ann McFerran, Interview with Anna Carteret and Hattie Morahan, The Sunday Times Magazine, 30 November 2008
  4. "Shine a Light: Actress Anna Carteret reveals her struggle with Bipolar Disorder".
  5. "Anna Carteret | Theatricalia".

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