Barbara Rose Kellerman (originally spelt Kellermann; born 30 December 1949) is an English actress, known for her

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and

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roles.

Early life

Kellerman was born in

Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...

. Her

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father, Walter Kellermann (1915–2012), had fled

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

and settled in

Leeds Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built aro ...

, where he became a Senior Lecturer in the Department of

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at the

University of Leeds The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Y ...

. Her mother, Marcelle, was a member of the

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during the

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who became a teacher of modern foreign languages. She trained at Rose Bruford College.

Career

Kellerman's film credits include: '' Satan's Slave'', '' The Monster Club'' and '' The Sea Wolves''. Her television appearances include: '' Space: 1999'', '' The Glittering Prizes'', ''

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

'', '' The Mad Death'', '' Quatermass'' and ''

The Chronicles of Narnia ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' is a series of seven portal fantasy novels by British author C. S. Lewis. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes and originally published between 1950 and 1956, the series is set in the fictional realm of Narnia (wor ...

'' 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

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network. She is also known for her appearances in the

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adaptations of three of the Narnia books, most notably as the tyrannical

White Witch Jadis is a fictional character and the main antagonist of '' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' (1950) and '' The Magician's Nephew'' (1955) in C. S. Lewis's series, ''The Chronicles of Narnia''. She is commonly referred to as the White Witc ...

in '' The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe'' (1988). A year later she had a minor role as the Old Hag (Narnian Hag) in ''

Prince Caspian ''Prince Caspian'' (originally published as ''Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia'') is a high fantasy novel written by British author C. S. Lewis and published by Geoffrey Bles in 1951. It was the second published of seven novels in ''The C ...

'' in (1989), and finally as the evil

Lady of the Green Kirtle The Lady of the Green Kirtle, also called Queen of Underland and Queen of the Deep Realm, is the main antagonist in '' The Silver Chair'' by C. S. Lewis. She enslaved Prince Rilian of Narnia and a horde of gnomes by her witchcraft, and plann ...

in ''

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'' in 1990. On the radio, she portrayed

Modesty Blaise ''Modesty Blaise'' is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by author Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway in 1963. The strip follows Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talen ...

in a 1978

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adaptation of the novel '' Last Day in Limbo''. 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 Christian Rodska (born Christian Rodskjaer; 5 September 1945 – 21 March 2024) was an English actor who appeared in many television and radio series and narrated a number of audiobooks, including Sir Winston Churchill's Nobel Prize winning '' T ...

and was the story of two middle-aged divorcees doing up a boat on the

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coast. It was filmed in

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, 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''. The film was entered into

Bristol Bristol () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. Built around the River Avon, Bristol, River Avon, it is bordered by t ...

's Brief Encounters Festival and is now on YouTube.

Personal life

Kellerman lived in

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during the 1980s and 1990s. She was previously married to Robin Scobey (born 1945). Kellerman has two younger siblings, a brother named Clive and a sister named Judith.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kellermann, Barbara 1949 births Living people English film actresses English television actresses Actresses from Manchester Alumni of Rose Bruford College Jewish English actresses English people of German-Jewish descent English people of French descent