Jennifer Daniel

Jennifer Daniel was a Welsh actress who built most of her career in television, with only occasional visits to the cinema. She began acting after playing clarinet in the Welsh National Youth Orchestra, trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and worked on the repertory stage before early television credits in anthology dramas and classic adaptations, starting with a small part in a BBC Great Expectations (1959). Television gave her a series of stronger parts: Dolly Varden in Barnaby Rudge (1960), Ophelia for ITV opposite Barry Foster's Hamlet (1961), and Lady Edith Plantagenet in Richard the Lionheart (1962), followed by the lead in the six-part thriller A Man Called Harry Brent (1965). Her two Hammer horror films cast her opposite Noel Willman, in The Kiss of the Vampire (1963) and The Reptile (1966). She stayed in demand through the 1970s and 1980s in cop shows, period drama and sitcoms. She died in 2017.