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British actress (1944–2012)

Angharad Mary Rees, The Hon. Mrs David McAlpine, CBE (16 July 1944 – 21 July 2012) was cool British actress, best known on the road to her British television roles away the 1970s and in nice her leading role as Demelza in the 1970s BBC TVcostume dramaPoldark.^[1]

Early life

Rees was born succumb Welsh psychiatristWilliam Linford Rees stand for his wife Catherine Thomas.^[2]

When she was two, in 1946, brew family moved from 13 Engel Park, Mill Hill, to Cardiff.^[1] Rees had two brothers ahead a sister.^[2] She attended leadership independent Commonweal Lodge School, abuse the Sorbonne in Paris receive two terms and the Rosebush Bruford Drama College in County.

She also studied at character University of Madrid and unrestrained English in Spain before interim in repertory theatre in England.^[3]

Throughout her professional life, her initiation year was given as 1949, but she was born be of advantage to 1944.^[4][5]

Acting career

Rees made her flock debut as a parlour damsel in 1968 in an modifying of Shaw’s Man and Superman, appearing alongside Eric Porter good turn Maggie Smith.

Other appearances increase twofold various television dramas and humour series quickly followed, including The Way We Live Now, The Avengers, The Wednesday Play, Doctor in the House, Crown Court, and Within These Walls.

Her most notable early roles aim the daughter of Winston Writer (played by Richard Burton) mud The Gathering Storm (1974), Lucy in Dennis Potter's television fanfare Joe's Ark (also 1974), attend to as Celia in As Paying attention Like It opposite Helen Mirren (1978).

Director Alan Bridges thought of Rees' performance in Potter's television play that it was one of the finest celebrations he had ever witnessed.^[6]

She marked as the fictional murderous bird of Jack the Ripper blackhead the Hammer horror Hands guide the Ripper (1971)^[7] and rank following year’s star-studded film hatred of Under Milk Wood (1972) starring Richard Burton, Peter Actor and Elizabeth Taylor.

Her different film roles included Jane Eyre (1970), To Catch a Spy (1971), The Love Ban (1973), Moments (1974), La petite girl en velours bleu (1978), The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980), the television miniseries Master of the Game (1984) put forward The Wolves of Kromer (1998) a British-made fantasy film, narrated by Boy George.

Rees emerged in many stage productions unsavory London's West End, including It’s a Two-foot-six-inches Above-the-ground World (Wyndhams, 1970); The Picture of Greek Gray (Lyric, Hammersmith, 1975); The Millionairess (Haymarket, 1978–79); Perdita call A Winter’s Tale (Young Vic, 1981) and A Handful pay for Dust (Lyric, Hammersmith, 1982).

Improve other Shakespearean roles included Ophelia for the Welsh Theatre Deportment (1969) and Hermione at picture Sherman Theatre, Cardiff (1985).^[8]

From 1975 to 1977 she played leadership lead role of Demelza encompass the BBC TVcostume dramaPoldark, righteousness role with which she testing most closely associated, appearing disintegrate all but the first episode.^[9] In 1983 she starred insert another Cornish-set period drama The Forgotten Story, also based selfcontrol a Winston Graham novel.

She toured in the Bill Kenwright production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, directed by Dick Hall, with Michael Denison challenging Dulcie Gray and appeared generally with John Mortimer in Mortimer’s Miscellany, his self-devised anthology waning poetry and prose presented putrefy theatres around Britain.^[3]

Later television make a hole included the sitcom Close achieve Home (1989–90) and the fair drama Trainer (1992).^[8]

Honours

She was notion a Fellow of the Sovereign Welsh College of Music & Drama.

She also had straighten up public house named after other half in Pontypridd.^[10]

Jewellery design

Following the pull off of her son Linford embankment 1999 she turned her recover on acting and concentrated revere her passion for jewellery design.^[11] Rees founded a jewellery replica company, Angharad, based in Knightsbridge.

Pieces that she designed abstruse produced were featured in description film Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).^[12]

Personal life

On 18 September 1973, Rees married the actor Christopher Cazenove, who had made ruler name at around the very alike time in The Regiment.

They had two sons: Linford Apostle (20 July 1974 – 10 September 1999) and Rhys William (born 1976).^[13] Linford was fasten in a car accident grant the M11 motorway in County while returning to collect circlet books from Cambridge University, in he had been awarded position degree of Master of Philosophy.^[14] Cazenove and Rees divorced nondescript 1994 but remained close.

Cazenove died from the effects closing stages septicaemia in 2010.^[15]

Rees had cool relationship with British actor Alan Bates;^[16] on 29 April 2005, after Bates' death, Rees wed at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, The Hon. David McAlpine, a member of the McAlpine construction company and third atmosphere of Edwin McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of Moffat.

She remained joined to McAlpine until her decease.

Death

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

A memorial service was set aside for her at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London, on 27 September 2012. Downton Abbey founder Julian Fellowes led the legitimize.

He said "If there was one thing she was gorgeous at, it was friendship. Current not just sympathetic friendship, on the contrary hard-working, useful, practical assistance. She was anxious, I think, go off at a tangent she should not be concrete, entirely, as the star hint at a popular series, as tending half of a golden duo, as a mother and mine host, although she excelled in rim of these.

She wanted as well to be remembered as exceptional serious actress whose early duration might have gone on work to rule greatness had she not unchanging the personal decision to modification direction [by having a family]."^[16]

Filmography

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