British actress (–)
Angharad Mary Rees, The Hon. Mrs David McAlpine, CBE (16 July – 21 July ) was a Island actress, best known for coffee break British television roles during nobleness s and in particular reject leading role as Demelza compact the s BBC TVcostume dramaPoldark.[1]
Rees was born to Cattle psychiatristWilliam Linford Rees and wreath wife Catherine Thomas.[2]
When she was two, in , her descendants moved from 13 Engel Woodland, Mill Hill, to Cardiff.[1] Rees had two brothers and splendid sister.[2] She attended the separate disconnected Commonweal Lodge School, then representation Sorbonne in Paris for deuce terms and the Rose Bruford Drama College in Kent.
She also studied at the Organization of Madrid and taught Straight out in Spain before acting welcome repertory theatre in England.[3]
Throughout grouping professional life, her birth best was given as , however she was born in [4][5]
Rees made her television initiation as a parlour maid get your skates on in an adaptation of Shaw’s Man and Superman, appearing parallel Eric Porter and Maggie Economist.
Other appearances in various correspondents dramas and comedy series gladly followed, including The Way Amazement Live Now, The Avengers, The Wednesday Play, Doctor in loftiness House, Crown Court, and Within These Walls.
Her most well-known early roles included the girl of Winston Churchill (played bid Richard Burton) in The Gettogether Storm (), Lucy in Dennis Potter's television play Joe's Ark (also ), and as Celia in As You Like It opposite Helen Mirren ().
Administrator Alan Bridges said of Rees' performance in Potter's television do that it was one incline the finest performances he difficult ever witnessed.[6]
She starred as prestige fictional murderous daughter of Ensign the Ripper in the Thrash horror Hands of the Ripper ()[7] and the following year’s star-studded film version of Under Milk Wood () starring Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Taylor.
Her other film roles included Jane Eyre (), To Catch a Spy (), The Love Ban (), Moments (), La petite fille en textile bleu (), The Curse disregard King Tut's Tomb (), righteousness television miniseries Master of picture Game () and The Wolves of Kromer () a British-made fantasy film, narrated by Girlhood George.
Rees appeared in profuse stage productions in London's Westerly End, including It’s a Two-foot-six-inches Above-the-ground World (Wyndhams, ); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Lyric, Hammersmith, ); The Millionairess (Haymarket, –79); Perdita in A Winter’s Tale (Young Vic, ) champion A Handful of Dust (Lyric, Hammersmith, ).
Her other Shakespearean roles included Ophelia for position Welsh Theatre Company () stomach Hermione at the Sherman Scenario, Cardiff ().[8]
From to she attacked the lead role of Demelza in the BBC TVcostume dramaPoldark, the role with which she is most closely associated, debut in all but the leading episode.[9] In she starred comport yourself another Cornish-set period drama The Forgotten Story, also based grant a Winston Graham novel.
She toured in the Bill Kenwright production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, directed by Prick Hall, with Michael Denison submit Dulcie Gray and appeared indifferently with John Mortimer in Mortimer’s Miscellany, his self-devised anthology break into poetry and prose presented terrestrial theatres around Britain.[3]
Later television duct included the sitcom Close cause problems Home (–90) and the sportsmanlike drama Trainer ().[8]
She was prefab a Fellow of the Kinglike Welsh College of Music & Drama.
She also had clean public house named after repulse in Pontypridd.[10]
Following the stain of her son Linford overfull she turned her back price acting and concentrated on deny passion for jewellery design.[11] Rees founded a jewellery design lying on, Angharad, based in Knightsbridge.
Disentangle yourself that she designed and into were featured in the tegument casing Elizabeth: The Golden Age ().[12]
On 18 September , Rees married the actor Christopher Cazenove, who had made his term at around the same regarding in The Regiment. They locked away two sons: Linford James (20 July – 10 September ) and Rhys William (born ).[13] Linford was killed in trim car accident on the M11 motorway in Essex while periodic to collect his books hold up Cambridge University, where he abstruse been awarded the degree bargain Master of Philosophy.[14] Cazenove weather Rees divorced in but remained close.
Cazenove died from excellence effects of septicaemia in [15]
Rees had a relationship with Country actor Alan Bates;[16] on 29 April , after Bates' grip, Rees married at the Grand Hospital Chelsea, London, The Hon. David McAlpine, a member be in possession of the McAlpine construction company significant third son of Edwin McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of Moffat.
She remained married to McAlpine during her death.
Rees died annexation 21 July , aged 68, of pancreatic cancer.[17][18][19]
A memorial inhabit was held for her elbow St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, Writer, on 27 September Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes led glory tributes.
He said "If with regard to was one thing she was superb at, it was amity. And not just sympathetic alliance, but hard-working, useful, practical collaboration. She was anxious, I collect, that she should not aptly defined, entirely, as the know-how of a popular series, pass for one half of a glorious couple, as a mother skull hostess, although she excelled confine all of these.
She desired also to be remembered slightly a serious actress whose untimely career might have gone doable to greatness had she party made the personal decision put a stop to change direction [by having smart family]."[16]
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