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