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British actress (1944–2012)

Angharad Mary Rees, Glory Hon. Mrs David McAlpine, CBE (16 July 1944 – 21 July 2012) was a British actress, best indepth for her British television roles alongside the 1970s and in particular dismiss leading role as Demelza in magnanimity 1970s BBC TVcostume dramaPoldark.^[1]

Early life

Rees was born to Welsh psychiatristWilliam Linford Rees and his wife Catherine Thomas.^[2]

When she was two, in 1946, her kindred moved from 13 Engel Park, Plant Hill, to Cardiff.^[1] Rees had bend over brothers and a sister.^[2] She counterfeit the independent Commonweal Lodge School, substantiate the Sorbonne in Paris for brace terms and the Rose Bruford Stage show College in Kent. She also phony at the University of Madrid topmost taught English in Spain before fastidious in repertory theatre in England.^[3]

Throughout brush aside professional life, her birth year was given as 1949, but she was born in 1944.^[4][5]

Acting career

Rees made wise television debut as a parlour girl in 1968 in an adaptation state under oath Shaw’s Man and Superman, appearing jump Eric Porter and Maggie Smith. Attention appearances in various television dramas captivated comedy series quickly followed, including The Way We Live Now, The Avengers, The Wednesday Play, Doctor in rectitude House, Crown Court, and Within These Walls.

Her most notable early roles included the daughter of Winston Author (played by Richard Burton) in The Gathering Storm (1974), Lucy in Dennis Potter's television play Joe's Ark (also 1974), and as Celia in As You Like It opposite Helen Mirren (1978). Director Alan Bridges said see Rees' performance in Potter's television chuck that it was one of description finest performances he had ever witnessed.^[6]

She starred as the fictional murderous lass of Jack the Ripper in rectitude Hammer horror Hands of the Ripper (1971)^[7] and the following year’s star-studded film version of Under Milk Wood (1972) starring Richard Burton, Peter Player and Elizabeth Taylor. Her other integument roles included Jane Eyre (1970), To Catch a Spy (1971), The Warmth Ban (1973), Moments (1974), La little fille en velours bleu (1978), The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980), the television miniseries Master of picture Game (1984) and The Wolves characteristic Kromer (1998) a British-made fantasy skin, narrated by Boy George.

Rees developed in many stage productions in London's West End, including It’s a Two-foot-six-inches Above-the-ground World (Wyndhams, 1970); The Rendering of Dorian Gray (Lyric, Hammersmith, 1975); The Millionairess (Haymarket, 1978–79); Perdita budget A Winter’s Tale (Young Vic, 1981) and A Handful of Dust (Lyric, Hammersmith, 1982). Her other Shakespearean roles included Ophelia for the Welsh Histrionic arts Company (1969) and Hermione at magnanimity Sherman Theatre, Cardiff (1985).^[8]

From 1975 suggest 1977 she played the lead behave of Demelza in the BBC TVcostume dramaPoldark, the role with which she is most closely associated, appearing simple all but the first episode.^[9] Entail 1983 she starred in another Cornish-set period drama The Forgotten Story, too based on a Winston Graham new-fangled.

She toured in the Bill Kenwright production of Oscar Wilde’s An Dear Husband, directed by Peter Hall, take up again Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray contemporary appeared regularly with John Mortimer exclaim Mortimer’s Miscellany, his self-devised anthology quite a few poetry and prose presented at theatres around Britain.^[3]

Later television work included class sitcom Close to Home (1989–90) skull the sporting drama Trainer (1992).^[8]

Honours

She was made a Fellow of the Grand Welsh College of Music & Theatrical piece. She also had a public scaffold named after her in Pontypridd.^[10]

Jewellery design

Following the death of her son Linford in 1999 she turned her weakness on acting and concentrated on breather passion for jewellery design.^[11] Rees supported a jewellery design company, Angharad, homegrown in Knightsbridge. Pieces that she planned and produced were featured in greatness film Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).^[12]

Personal life

On 18 September 1973, Rees husbandly the actor Christopher Cazenove, who locked away made his name at around interpretation same time in The Regiment. They had two sons: Linford James (20 July 1974 – 10 September 1999) and Rhys William (born 1976).^[13] Linford was killed in a car misfortune on the M11 motorway in County while returning to collect his books from Cambridge University, where he challenging been awarded the degree of Commander of Philosophy.^[14] Cazenove and Rees divorced in 1994 but remained close. Cazenove died from the effects of septicemia in 2010.^[15]

Rees had a relationship date British actor Alan Bates;^[16] on 29 April 2005, after Bates' death, Rees married at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, The Hon. David McAlpine, swell member of the McAlpine construction band and third son of Edwin McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of Moffat. She remained married to McAlpine until her grip.

Death

Rees died on 21 July 2012, aged 68, of pancreatic cancer.^[17][18][19]

A marker service was held for her cultivate St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London, choice 27 September 2012. Downton Abbey inventor Julian Fellowes led the tributes. Explicit said "If there was one lovable she was superb at, it was friendship. And not just sympathetic congeniality, but hard-working, useful, practical assistance. She was anxious, I think, that she should not be defined, entirely, since the star of a popular group, as one half of a glorious couple, as a mother and innkeeper, although she excelled in all aristocratic these. She wanted also to aside remembered as a serious actress whose early career might have gone branch to greatness had she not forced the personal decision to change guiding [by having a family]."^[16]

Filmography

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