Angharad Rees
Angharad Rees, CBE (* July 16, 1949 in Cardiff, Wales, † July 21, 2012 in London, England) was a British- Welsh actress.
Life
Education and Theatre
Angharad Mary Rees was born in Wales. Her father, Professor Linford Rees, Commander of the British Empire, was a renowned psychiatrist and university professor; He later headed the first department for " Psychological Medicine " at Bart's Hospital in London.
She attended the private Commonweal Lodge School in Surrey; there she suffered from dyslexia. At the age of 16, she went to Paris and studied two semesters at the Sorbonne there. She received a scholarship to the Rose Bruford Drama College in Surrey; there Rees completed her acting training. At times, she also studied at the University of Madrid; During this time she gave English lessons from a psychiatric clinic in Madrid.
Mid-1960s, began her stage career, first as a stage manager and actress on the West Cliff Theatre in Clacton -on-Sea, Essex. Then they played at some repertoire theaters. As a theater actress, she was best known for her roles in Shakespeare plays Perdita in The Winter's Tale ( Old Vic Theatre, London ), Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Hermione in The Winter's Tale and Queen Isabella in Richard II; for television in 1978, she played the Celia in As You Like It, alongside Helen Mirren (as Rosalinde ).
Other stage appearances she had in London's West End in the play It's a Two Feet Six Inches Above the Ground World by Kevin Laffan ( Wyndham 's Theatre, 1970), in a stage version of the novel A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh ( Epic Theatre ), as Sybil Vane and as Duchess of Monmouth in a stage version of the novel the Picture of Dorian Gray ( Greenwich Theatre, London, 1975), and as Patricia Smith in the comedy the millionairess by George Bernard Shaw ( Royal Haymarket Theatre, London, 1978-1979 ). Directed by Sir Peter Hall she performed in a production of the Salon- comedy An Ideal Husband; With this production, Rees went on tour.
Television and Film
My television debut Rees 1968 as chambermaid in a BBC production of the play Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw; their partners were Maggie Smith and Eric Porter. Greater attention they reached in 1969 with the role of Marie Melmotte in the TV movie The Way We Live Now, a television adaptation of the novel by Anthony Trollope. In 1974 she played the daughter of Winston Churchill, Sarah Churchill in the TV movie The Gathering Storm; her partner as Winston Churchill was Richard Burton. In the horror film The Curse of King Tut's Amun, a British-American co-production television, she appeared in 1980 as Lady Evelyn Herbert.
Her best-known television role was from 1975 to 1977 in the UK, in the aftermath of the French Revolution gambling, historical TV series Poldark. She played on the side of Robin Ellis, the idiosyncratic Demelza, a former maid who manages to marry the Squire Ross Poldark in spite of their low origin.
Rees also took over episode roles and guest roles in numerous British television series, including The Avengers and melon (1968 ), Paul Temple (1970 ) on the side of Francis Matthews and Ros Drinkwater, Doctor in Charge (1972, 1973), Crown Court (1973 ), and later in the Forgotten Story ( 1983), Master of the Game (1984 ), Remington Steele (1985 ), in the sitcom Close to Home (1989-1990; than Helen De Angelo, the former wife of and wiederverheirate veterinarian James Shepherd ) and coach (1992; must overcome living with her trunk search term and gambling ruined husband Freddie ) as Caroline Farrell.
Rees also had a few roles in movies. In the horror film hands full of blood, a production from the series of Hammer films, she played in 1971, alongside Eric Porter, in the role of Anna, the murderous daughter of Jack The Ripper. In 1972, she took over, next to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, the role of Gossamer Beynon in the feature film Under Milk Wood; she played the daughter of the butcher Beynon.
In the Franco-British co-production La petite fille en velours bleu ( The Little Girl in Blue Velvet), she played in 1978, directed by Alan Bridges the role of Macha in an international cast with Michel Piccoli, Claudia Cardinale, Lara Wendel, Umberto Orsini and Alexandra Stewart.
Honors and Awards
Rees was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. In 2004, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
A pub in Pontypridd, which Angharad 's, bears her name.
Private
Rees was married his first wife, from September 1973 to 1994 with the British actor Christopher Cazenove; from the marriage came two sons, Linford (* 1974) and Rhys William ( * 1976 ), produced. The older son Linford died in 1999 at the age of 25 years in a car accident on the M11 motorway in Essex. Rees and Cazenove appeared together with their children also in commercials for Nescafé. 1981 Rees gave her acting career initially largely in order to devote themselves to the family and the upbringing of children. She worked at this time as a voice coach and gave public speaking courses for business.
Their long years, publicly -announced relationship with the actor Alan Bates ended 2002.
In 2005 she married second husband, the British aristocrat David Malcolm McAlpine ( b. 1946 ), the brother of Alastair McAlpine, the former Treasurer of the Conservative Party.
In 2005 she started her own jewelry design company, Angharad, with headquarters in London's Belgravia area and a shop in Knightsbridge. Her work as a jewelery designer called Rees himself once as " therapeutic". She designed necklaces and earrings for the movie Elizabeth - The Golden Age (2007), starring Cate Blanchett in the title role.
Rees died at the age of 63 years, surrounded by her family at her home in London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, from pancreatic cancer.