Angela Thorne

Angela Thorne was a British actress of theater, television and film. She spent her early childhood in India, attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and took her first professional engagement with the Caryl Jenner Children's Theatre, later appearing in repertory seasons in York and Sheffield and with Ralph Richardson's company at the Haymarket Theatre. On television she was a regular in sitcoms, playing Marjory Frobisher in the comedy To the Manor Born between 1979 and 1981 and returning to the character for a 1997 radio series and a 2007 Christmas special, and taking leads in Three Up, Two Down and Farrington of the F.O. She played Margaret Thatcher in Anyone for Denis?, staged at the Whitehall Theatre, a performance that brought a 1981 Laurence Olivier Award nomination, and she repeated the role for television in 1982. Her film work included The BFG (1990), in which she voiced Elizabeth II.