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Anna Carteret

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Anna Carteret
Carteret at the Empty Space Awards, Young Vic Theatre in 2007
Born
Annabelle S. Wilkinson [1]

(1942-12-11) 11 December 1942 (age 81)
NationalityBritish
Years active1964–present
SpouseChristopher Morahan (1974–2017; his death)
Children2, including Hattie Morahan
Parent(s)Peter John Wilkinson
Patricia Strahan

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

Biography

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Carteret was born as Annabelle S. Wilkinson[1] on 11 December 1942 in Bangalore, British India, 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[1] They were together for over forty years and often worked together. The couple had two daughters, theatre director Rebecca[2] and actress Hattie Morahan.[3] In June 2019, Carteret spoke about living with bipolar disorder since she was a teenager.[4]

Theatre career

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Carteret's extensive life in the theatre from 1964 to 2015 is catalogued in the British online database Theatricalia.[5]

Films, radio and television

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Carteret is best known for her role as police inspector Kate Longton in the BBC'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, Holby City, and Casualty. In 1990, she was a contestant on Cluedo, 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

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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 (Following the death of Mike Amatt (1949 - 2021, aged 71) who played Scarecrow, she is now 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

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Year Title Role Notes
1965 Dateline Diamonds Gay Jenkins Film
1966 ITV Play of the Week Clarissa Crosswaite The Reluctant Debutant
1967 The Plank It's Paint Woman Short Film
1969 The Saint Diane Huntley Episode: "Portrait of Brenda"
1971 Play for Today Carol The Pigeon Fancier
1974 The Merchant of Venice Nerissa TV Movie
The Pallisers Lady Mabel Grex 5 episodes
1976 The Glittering Prizes Barbara Parks/ Barbara Ransome 2 episodes
Star Maidens Announcer Episode: "What Have They Done to the Rain?"
1977 Fathers and Families Clare Cotterill 3 episodes
The Sunday Drama Fiona The Man Who Like Elephants
1978 Send in the Girls Joy/ Sara Episode: "The Wild Bunch"
1982 Little Miss Perkins Laura Fitch TV Movie
1983-5 Juliet Bravo Inspector Kate Longton 44 episodes
1984 Weekend Playhouse Sarah Burns Change Partners
1988 Tickets for the Titanic Sandra Hopkins Everyone's a Winner
1989 The Shell Seekers Nancy TV Movie
The Heat of the Day Ernestine TV Movie
1991 Ashenden Anna Caypor Episode: "Traitor"
Forget Me Not Farm Various (voice only) 13 episodes
1994 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Anna Episode: "The Golden Pince-Nez"
1996 Eskimo Day Harriet Lloyd TV Movie
Testament: The Bible in Animation Miriam (voice only) Episode: "Moses"
1997 Cold Enough for Snow Harriet Lloyd TV Movie
1999 EastEnders Gillian Mills 4 episodes
2000 Peak Practice Dr. Yvonne Mitchell Episode: "One Too Often"
2005 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Film
2006 The Only Boy For Me Nana TV Movie
2010 Poirot Mrs. Babbington Episode: "Three Act Tragedy"
2012 Private Peaceful Colonel's Wife Film
Dead of the Nite Mrs. Matthews Film
2014 Lewis Gillian Fernsby 2 episodes
2021 Hiraeth Beth Seaward Film

References

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  1. ^ a b c 1974 marriage registration, freebmd.org.uk (General Register Office of England and Wales). Accessed 13 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Hattie Morahan pulls it off at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards". Evening Standard. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  3. ^ Ann McFerran, Interview with Anna Carteret and Hattie Morahan, The Sunday Times Magazine, 30 November 2008
  4. ^ "Shine a Light: Actress Anna Carteret reveals her struggle with Bipolar Disorder".
  5. ^ "Anna Carteret | Theatricalia".

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