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| Birth Name(s) : Felicity Ann Kendal |
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Felicity Ann Kendal CBE (born 25 September 1946) is an English actress, best known for her role as Barbara Good in The Good Life.
Felicity Kendal was born in Olton, Warwickshire, England, in 1946, and is the younger sister of Jennifer Kendal and the daughter of Geoffrey and Laura Kendal. Her father was an English actor-manager who made his living leading a repertory company on tours of India after the Second World War. They performed Shakespeare to audiences consisting mostly of schoolchildren. Her father had adopted his birthplace of Kendal, Westmorland as his stage name, his original surname being Bragg. Kendal was educated at six convents in India.
Kendal made her stage debut aged 9 months, when she was carried on stage as a changeling boy in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Later she started her career proper at the age of nineteen and starred in the Merchant Ivory film, Shakespeare Wallah (1965), loosely based on her family's real-life experience. On her return to Britain, she found that her film appearance was not a passport to success, and her struggle to build an acting career was long and difficult, partly because of her unusual upbringing.
In 1975, she got her big break with the situation comedy, The Good Life. At the time of the first series she was also to be seen in a very different dramatic role, that of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter 'Vicky' in Edward the Seventh.
After The Good Life ended in 1978, she starred in several other BBC sitcoms, including Solo, The Mistress and Honey for Tea, none of which achieved the success of The Good Life. Despite this, she maintained her popularity.
Her most recent TV work is the ITV murder mystery series Rosemary & Thyme, in which she plays a gardener Rosemary Boxer, who, together with friend, colleague and ex-policewoman Laura Thyme (Pam Ferris), solve mysteries near their various workplaces as landscape gardeners.
She is set to appear in the 2008 series of Doctor Who in an episode involving Agatha Christie. She will appear alongside David Tennant and Catherine Tate.
Kendal is 152 cm (5 ft) tall and has been married twice. Her first marriage was to Drewe Henley between 1968 and 1979 and the second was to Michael Rudman from 1983 to 1990. She converted to Judaism at the time of her second marriage. She has a child by each of her ex-husbands. In 1991 the playwright Tom Stoppard left his second wife to start a relationship with Kendal. She has since reunited with Michael Rudman. She was made a CBE in 1995. |
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