Angharad Rees

Welsh actress Angharad Rees made her name in British television during the 1970s, most memorably as Demelza in the BBC costume drama Poldark from 1975 to 1977. Born in Edgware and raised in Cardiff from the age of two, she studied at the Sorbonne and trained at the Rose Bruford Drama College in Kent before her television debut in 1968 as a parlor maid in a Shaw adaptation, Man and Superman. Her film work included Hands of the Ripper (1971), a Hammer horror in which she played the murderous daughter of Jack the Ripper, and the film version of Under Milk Wood (1972). She also appeared in the fantasy film The Wolves of Kromer (1998). On stage she performed in London's West End and toured in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. Later she founded a jewelry design company, Angharad, and pieces she designed appeared in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).