Angela Morant

Angela Morant (born January 15, 1941 in Warwickshire, England) is a British actress. She attended Chipping Campden Grammar School.

Career

Morant is best known for playing Octavia Minor in the 1976 BBC television adaptation of I, Claudius,[1][2] and Barbara Harrison in the soap opera Brookside.

Other TV credits include A.D., Dixon of Dock Green, Callan, Inspector Morse,[3] Bergerac and The Bill. She was also featured in the Lord Peter Wimsey series Have His Carcase.

Her film roles include the lead in the 1979 film Victims.[4]

Personal life

She was the first wife of actor Ben Kingsley; they were married in 1966 and divorced in 1976; They have two children, Thomas and Jasmin.[5]

From a theatrical family, her parents Philip and Angela, siblings Richard and Jane, cousin Penelope Wilton, aunt Linden and uncle Bill Travers were also actors.

References

  1. "I, Claudius", The Museum of Broadcast Communications, retrieved 2012-01-31
  2. Cornell, Paul; Day, Martin & Topping, Keith (1996) The Guinness Book of Classic British TV, Guinness, 2nd edn., ISBN 978-0-85112-628-9
  3. "TV Guide", Luddington Daily News, 13 May 1994, p. 9, retrieved 2012-01-31
  4. "Film Guide", Evening Times, 5 November 1983, p. 8, retrieved 2012-01-31
  5. "Sir Ben Kingsley makes Brazilian ex-waitress half his age his 4th wife", Daily Mail, 6 September 2007, retrieved 2012-01-31

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