Angharad Rees
- Acting
- July 16, 1944 · Edgware, Middlesex, England, UK
- July 21, 2012
Biography
Angharad Rees was a London-born Welsh actress and, later, jewellery designer, best known for her British television roles during the 1970s and in particular her leading role as Demelza in the 1970s BBC TV costume drama "Poldark". Her father was a prominent Welsh psychiatrist Linford Rees (William Linford Llewellyn Rees) and mother Catherine Thomas. When she was two, in 1946, her family returned to Wales to live into Cardiff. Rees studied at the Sorbonne in Paris for two terms and the Rose Bruford Drama College in Kent, England. She also studied at the University of Madrid and taught English in Spain before acting in repertory theatre in England. On 18 September 1973, Rees married the actor Christopher Cazenove. They had two sons: Linford James and Rhys William. Linford was killed in a car accident on the M11 motorway in Essex while driving to pick up books from Cambridge University, where he had been awarded the degree of Master of Philosophy. Cazenove and Rees divorced in 1994 but remained close. Cazenove died from the effects of septicaemia in 2010. Rees later married David McAlpine, a member of the McAlpine construction company, at The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. She remained married to McAlpine until her death. Rees founded a jewellery design company, Angharad, based in Knightsbridge, London, England.
Known for
Filmography
- Dylan on Dylan · Caitlin Thomas
- The Wolves of Kromer · Mary
- Noel's Telly Years · Self
- Trainer · Caroline Farrell
- Close to Home · Helen De Angelo
- The Temptation of Eileen Hughes · Mona McAuley
- Screen Two · Mona McAuley
- Royal Variety Performance 1984
- Robin of Sherwood · Jennet of Elsdon
- Master of the Game · Marianne Hoffman
- Remington Steele · Katherine Galt
- Dear Brutus · Lady Caroline
- The Curse of King Tut's Tomb · Lady Evelyn Herbert
- As You Like It · Celia
- The BBC Television Shakespeare · Celia
- Little Girl in Blue Velvet · Macha
- The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show · Self
- The Duchess of Duke Street · Lady Adam
- More Awkward Customers · Brenda
- Awkward Customers · Brenda
- Poldark · Demelza Carne, Demelza Poldark
- Ten from the Twenties · Alice Smith
- Moments · Chrissy Hunter
- Graceless Go I · Jean
- Bedtime Stories · Miss Goldie
- Joe's Ark · Lucy
- Once the Killing Starts · Stella Mason
- Thriller · Stella Mason
- Baffled! · Peggy Tracewell
- The Love Ban · Jackie
- Crown Court · Pauline Ellis
- The Protectors · Linda
- Under Milk Wood · Gossamer Beynon
- The Bristol Entertainment · Sarah Ann
- Hands of the Ripper · Anna
- Catch Me a Spy · Victoria
- Office Party · Julia
- Hell's Angel · April Cotton
- Jane Eyre · Louise
- Play for Today · April Cotton, Lady Caroline
- Doctor in the House
- The Way We Live Now · Marie Melmotte
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre · The Girl
- ITV Playhouse
- BBC Play of the Month · Parlourmaid
- Thirty-Minute Theatre · Cissie
- The Avengers · Redhead
- Armchair Theatre · Julia
- Hallmark Hall of Fame · Sarah Churchill
- Pygmalion · Parlourmaid