Charlotte Cornwell

Charlotte Cornwell was an English actress and singer who trained at London's Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art before taking her first stage role in 1971, as Miss Brewster in Trelawny of the 'Wells' for Richard Cottrell's Cambridge Theatre Company. She then acted with the Bristol Old Vic company for three years, from 1972 to 1975. Her screen debut came in 1974 in the musical Stardust, and she became a familiar face through the BAFTA winning television drama Rock Follies (1976), playing the rock star Anna Wynd; its soundtrack topped the UK album chart. From 1977 to 1980 she acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company, returning in 2013, and she later worked with the Royal National Theatre. Her films included The Krays (1990), White Hunter Black Heart (1990) and The Saint (1997). She taught acting at the University of Southern California from 2004 to 2012 and died in 2021.