Annette Badland
Biography
Annette Badland is a British actress who has worked across television, radio, stage, and film. Born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, she trained at East 15 Acting School and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1973, where her Audrey in As You Like It was deemed an auspicious leading-company debut. She earned a 1993 Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and later reprised that role in the 1998 film Little Voice. On television she is known for Charlotte in Bergerac, Margaret Blaine in Doctor Who, Mrs Glenna Fitzgibbons in Outlander, Babe Smith in EastEnders, Dr Fleur Perkins in Midsomer Murders, and Mae Green in Ted Lasso. Her films include Jabberwocky (1977), Captives (1994), Angels and Insects (1995), Valiant (2005), The Kovak Box (2006), The Baker (2007), and A Quiet Passion (2016).
76years old
Turns 77 on August 26in 289 days
- Born Edgbaston
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as Annette W E Badland
Movie Career
- Films
- 12
- Career span
- 48 years1977 to 2025
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First role
Annette Badland's first professional television role came in 1975, when she played a tap-dancing pupil in the Thames Television biopic The Naked Civil Servant.
Early training
Badland earned her Equity Card and the right to work professionally after playing the maid in Private Lives at Southwold Summer Theatre during the summer of 1970.
First role
After drama school, Badland joined Ian McKellen's Actors' Company at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, making her professional debut in October 1972 in Three Arrows and Ruling the Roost.
Behind the award
In September 2019, The Old Rep Theatre in Birmingham named Badland a patron. The theater also dedicated a seat in her honor, inscribed with the words "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it".
Beyond film
Badland was the sole performer in a September 2021 event on the Golden Hind in Brixham Harbour marking the 131st anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth, with details kept secret and the audience of 30 sworn to secrecy.
Annette Badland movies on Netflix
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Films together
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