Pauline Moran (born 26 August 1947
) is an English actress, best known for her role as
Miss Felicity Lemon in the British television series ''
Agatha Christie's Poirot
''Agatha Christie's Poirot'', or simply ''Poirot'' (), is a British mystery drama television programme that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2020. The ITV show is based on many of Agatha Christie's famous crime fiction series, wh ...
''.
She trained at several schools, including the
National Youth Theatre
The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) is a youth theatre and charity in London, created with the aim of developing young people's artistic skills via theatrical productions and other creative endeavours. Founded in 1956 as the world ...
and the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, also known by its abbreviation RADA (), is a drama school in London, England, which provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in Bloomsbury, Central London ...
.
[ Although primarily a stage actress, Moran has appeared in films such as '']The Good Soldier
''The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion'' is a 1915 novel by the British writer Ford Madox Ford. It is set just before World War I, and chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham and his seemingly perfect marriage, along with that of his two A ...
'' (1981), '' The Woman in Black'' (1989), ''Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-kno ...
'' (2003) and '' A Little Chaos'' (2014), as well as the 1983 television series '' The Cleopatras''. From 1965 to about 1970, she played bass guitar
The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...
in the all-female band
An all-female band is a musical ensemble, musical group in popular music that is exclusively composed of female musicians. This is distinct from a girl group, in which the female members are solely vocalists, though this terminology is not universa ...
The She Trinity.
She has also been a professional astrologer
Astrology is a range of Divination, divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions ...
since 1987.
Television
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20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
English film actresses
English bass guitarists
English stage actresses
English television actresses
English astrologers
20th-century British astrologers
21st-century astrologers
British women bass guitarists
Actresses from Blackpool
Living people
1947 births
Musicians from Lancashire
National Youth Theatre members