Anna Calder-Marshall (born 11 January 1947) is an English stage, film and television actress.

Anna Calder-Marshall
Born (1947-01-11) 11 January 1947 (age 77)
Kensington, London, England
OccupationActress
Years active1967–present
SpouseDavid Burke
ChildrenTom Burke
FatherArthur Calder-Marshall

Personal life

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Calder-Marshall was born in Kensington, London, and is the daughter of novelist and essayist Arthur Calder-Marshall and documentary screenplay-writer and his wife,[1] Ara (née Violet Nancy Sales).

Her husband is actor David Burke. Their son, Tom, is also an actor.[2]

Filmography

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Year Film Role
1969 Male of the Species Mary McNeil
1970 Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You Millie Dobbs
1970 Wuthering Heights Catherine Earnshaw Linton
1979 Zulu Dawn Fanny Colenso
1983 King Lear Cordelia
1985 Titus Andronicus Lavinia
1992 Sherlock Holmes The Eligible Bachelor Lady Helena & her sister Agnes Northcote
1993 Lovejoy Virginia Moncrieff
1996 Saint-Ex Moisy
1997 Anna Karenina Princess Schcherbatksy
2019 Last Christmas Dora

She appeared in the Inspector Morse episode The Settling of the Sun (1988) and the Midsomer Murders episode Garden of Death (2000).[citation needed] In 2005 Calder-Marshall played Maude Abernethie in Poirot's After the Funeral.

Other roles include appearing in Harlots as Mrs. May, and in the 2018 BBC adaptation of Les Misérables as Madame Rully. Also in 2018, her real-life husband, actor David Burke, appeared as her character's husband in the short film Only the Lonely.[3]

In 2022, she played Janice Beattie in the fifth season of Strike, acting opposite her son, actor Tom Burke who plays Strike.[4]

References

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  1. ^ British Film and Television Yearbook vol. 4, Peter Noble, British and American Film Press, 1952, p. 100
  2. ^ "Strike star Tom Burke on Career of Evil, working with JK Rowling and playing an amputee". Radio Times. 4 March 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  3. ^ "Only the Lonely (Short 2018)". IMDb. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Meet the cast of Strike: Troubled Blood, season 5 of the BBC drama". Radio Times. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
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