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

Biography

Carteret was born as Annabelle S. Wilkinson on 11 December 1942 in

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, 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 They were together for over forty years and often worked together. The couple had two daughters, theatre director Rebecca and actress Hattie Morahan. In June 2019, Carteret spoke about living with

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since she was a teenager.

Theatre career

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

Films, radio and television

Carteret is best known for her role as police inspector Kate Longton in the

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'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'', ''

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'', and '' Casualty''. In 1990, she was a contestant on ''

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'', 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''. (After the death in 2021 of Mike Amatt, who played Scarecrow, she is 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

References

Sources

* ''Who's Who in the Theatre''; 17th ed. Gale (1981) * ''The National: The Theatre and its Work 1963–1997'' by Simon Callow, Nick Hern Books/NT (1997) * '' Theatre Record'' and ''Theatre Record'' annual indexes

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carteret, Anna 1942 births Living people 20th-century British actresses 21st-century British actresses Actresses from Bengaluru British film actresses British radio actresses British stage actresses British television actresses British voice actresses Actors educated at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts People from Tring British people in colonial India People with bipolar disorder Actors from Dacorum