Angela Morant

Angela Morant (born 15 January 1941 in Warwickshire, England) is an English actress best known for playing Octavia Minor in the 1976 BBC television adaptation of I, Claudius,[1][2] and Barbara Harrison in the soap opera Brookside.

Career

Other TV credits include A.D., Dixon of Dock Green, Callan, Inspector Morse,[3] Bergerac and The Bill. She was also featured in the Lord Peter Wimsey series Have His Carcase.

Her film roles include the lead in the 1979 film Victims.[4]

Personal life

Morant attended Chipping Campden Grammar School.

She was the first wife of actor Ben Kingsley. They had two children.

From a theatrical family, her parents Philip and Pearl, siblings Richard and Jane, cousins Susan Travers, Penelope Wilton, aunt Linden and uncle Bill Travers were also actors.

References
  1. "I, Claudius", The Museum of Broadcast Communications, retrieved 2012-01-31
  2. Cornell, Paul; Day, Martin & Topping, Keith (1996) The Guinness Book of Classic British TV, Guinness, 2nd edn., ISBN 978-0-85112-628-9
  3. "TV Guide", Luddington Daily News, 13 May 1994, p. 9, retrieved 2012-01-31
  4. "Film Guide", Evening Times, 5 November 1983, p. 8, retrieved 2012-01-31


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