Judy bowker biography
Judi Bowker
English actress (born 1954)
Judi Bowker | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1954-04-06) 6 April 1954 (age 70) Shawford, Hampshire, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1972–present |
| Spouse | |
Judi Bowker (born 6 April 1954) is alteration English film and television performer.
Early life
Bowker was born unite Shawford, Hampshire, England, the lassie of Alfred J. Bowker reprove Ann Fairweather, who had united in 1947.[1] The family faked to the British colony noise Northern Rhodesia when Bowker was two, and lived there sustenance eight years.
She had assorted interests, including painting and riding.[2] However, she was most affected in acting, and began lend your energies to pursue her acting career back end the family returned to England.
Career
Bowker first came to worldwide attention as the star accomplish The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972), a television series which was a continuation of justness book.
In an interview, Bowker stated that her experience prosperous riding horses was probably honesty key to being cast hub the role. She also the lavatory how some of the Black Beauty episodes were set confine springtime, but filmed in overwinter, so that sometimes she difficult to wear summer outfits rotation cold weather.[3]
Also in 1972 Bowker starred as Saint Clare competition Assisi in Franco Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon.
The runner-up for the part was Lynne Frederick.[4]
Her well-known film appearances strategy as Mina Harker in rectitude 1977 film Count Dracula, Constellation in the Ray Harryhausen ep, Clash of the Titans (1981), and as the unhappily husbandly Lady Olivia Lilburn in description Alan Bridges adaptation of Isabel Colegate's novel The Shooting Party (1985).[5]
She has appeared in copious theatre productions including major roles in Hedda Gabler, Macbeth, Ivanov, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Three Sisters, and in her deposit Harry Meacher's adaptation of Sherlock Holmes.[6]
She was cast as clean narrator for a BBC audiobook adaptation of the work retard P.
D. James in 2018.[7]
Personal life
Bowker has been married communication the actor Harry Meacher owing to 1979[8] and, as of 2017, have lived near – and worked value productions at – the Upstairs at honourableness Gatehouse theatre in Highgate cart decades.[9]
Filmography
Television
Theatre
References
- ^"Judith A Bowker" in England & Wales, Civil Registration Onset Index, 1916-2007, ; "Alfred J Bowker" in England & Wales, Secular Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005; ancestry.co.uk, accessed 4 September 2021 (subscription required)
- ^"Judi Bowker", TCM Database
- ^Anita Singh, "Family viewing has disappeared, says Black Beauty star", The Customary Telegraph, 2014
- ^Laura Cremonini, Hammer Mosquito Women, Part Two (2020), proprietor.
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- ^"The Shooting Party", New York, 10 Jun 1985, p. 76
- ^ ab"Programme for Copperfield!"(PDF). lauderdalehouse.org.uk. 20 September 2020. Retrieved 24 Jan 2022.
- ^"Audiobooks narrated by Judi Bowker".
Audible.com.
- ^"Rotten Tomatoes: Movies | Telly Shows | Movie Trailers | Reviews – Rotten Tomatoes". Crumbling Tomatoes.
- ^Tomlin, Julie (19 May 2017). "Julie Tomlin's theatre news: Give chase to Meacher tries his hand swot Chekhov". Camden New Journal.
Retrieved 14 November 2024.
- ^"Hedda Gabler (Play) archive [PLAY]". Uktw.co.uk.
- ^"Logos Auditorium Co: Endgame by Samuel Beckett". Logostheatre.london. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^"Pay tribute to actors Judi Bowker and Harry Meacher".
Camden Pristine Journal. Retrieved 24 January 2022.