Barbara Kellerman

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Barbara Kellerman
Born (1949-12-30) 30 December 1949 (age 73)
Alma mater Rose Bruford College
OccupationActress
Years active1969–2008
SpouseRobin Scobey (1975–1999) (divorced)

Barbara Rose Kellerman (originally spelt Kellermann; born 30 December 1949) is an English actress, known for her film and television roles. She trained at Rose Bruford College. [1]

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Kellerman was born in Manchester, Lancashire. [2] Her Jewish father, Walter Kellermann (1915–2012), had fled Nazi Germany and settled in Leeds, where he became a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of Leeds. Her mother, Marcelle, was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War who became a teacher of modern foreign languages. [3]

Kellerman has a younger brother Clive and a younger sister Judith. [4]

Career

Kellerman's film credits include: Satan's Slave , The Monster Club and The Sea Wolves . [5] Her television appearances include: Space: 1999 , The Glittering Prizes , 1990 , The Mad Death , Quatermass and The Chronicles of Narnia and the hard-hitting police drama The Professionals (1979), episode Runner, in which she played Sylvie the girlfriend of a former police officer who also has a relationship with a renegade former member of an organised crime network. [2] [6] [7]

She is also known for her appearances in the BBC adaptations of three of the Narnia books, most notably as the tyrannical White Witch in The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (1988). [8] A year later she had a minor role as the Old Hag (Narnian Hag) in Prince Caspian in (1989), and finally as the evil Lady of the Green Kirtle in The Silver Chair in 1990. [2] On the radio, she portrayed Modesty Blaise in a 1978 BBC World Service adaptation of the novel Last Day in Limbo . [9]

She made a 20-minute drama for With Light Productions in 2007 for director Anita Parry entitled The Lights of Santa Cruz. It co-starred Christian Rodska and was the story of two middle-aged divorcees doing up a boat on the Somerset coast. It was filmed in Watchet, Somerset (a small shipping port on the south west coast of England) over a four-day period, mostly on a refitted Swedish fishing boat, the Josefine. [10] The film was entered into Bristol's Brief Encounters Festival and is now on YouTube. During the late 1980s and early 1990s in between acting work, Kellerman worked for Sainsbury's in the former Green Park railway station in Bath.

Personal life

Kellerman lived in Bath, Somerset during the 1980s and 1990s. She is a former wife of Robin Scobey (born 1945). [11]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1969 The Oblong Box Dr. Newhartt's Patient
1976 Satan's Slave Frances
1980 The Sea Wolves Mrs. Cromwell
1981 The Monster Club Angela
1982 Living Apart Together Evie
2007The Lights of Santa CruzBethShort

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1969 How We Used to Live Girl1 episode
1971 On the House Maureen1 episode
1973 Wessex Tales Nanny1 episode
1974 Marked Personal Jane Wright2 episodes
General Hospital Nurse Laura HardyUnknown episodes
1974 John Halifax, Gentleman Louise
1975 Space: 1999 Dr. Monique Boucherepisode: Dragon's Domain
1976 The Glittering Prizes Barbara Morris4 episodes
BBC Play of the Month Jacqueline Maingotepisode: French Without Tears
Victorian Scandals Jane Brookfield 1 episode
A Pitcher of Snakes
The Crezz Alexandra Tuke1 episode
1977 1990 Delly Lomas8 episodes
1979 The Quatermass Conclusion Clare Kapp
BBC Television Shakespeare Anne Boleyn Episode: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
Crown Court Miranda Buckingham1 episode
The Professionals Sylvieepisode: Runner
1980 BBC2 Playhouse Isobel Dodgsonepisode: The Enigma
Lady KillersMadame Marie Fahey1 episode
Hammer House of Horror Laurie Mortonepisode: Growing Pains
1983 Number 10 Frances Stevenson1 episode
The Mad Death Anne Maitland
Storyboard 1 episode
1984 Morte d'Arthur Queen Guinevere
1985 My Brother Jonathan Rachel Hammond
1986 Lytton's Diary Helena5 episodes
1988–90 The Chronicles of Narnia The White Witch, Narnian Hag and the Lady of the Green Kirtle
1998 The Bill 1 episode
2000 Monsignor Renard Mme Dufosse3 episodes

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