Richenda Carey

Richenda Carey, born in Bitton, is a British actress who has worked in film, television, stage, and radio. Her screen credits include Downton Abbey, Criminal Justice, Colonia, and Monarch of the Glen. Early television roles include Miss Beale in Mike Leigh's Play for Today drama Nuts in May (1976) and Lady Crouchurst in Leigh's Who's Who (1979). At the National Theatre she appeared in The Madness of George III in 1991, and in 2009 she joined the West End cast of Calendar Girls at the Noël Coward Theatre. She played Mrs Higgins in a 2012 Sheffield Crucible revival of My Fair Lady. In New York she was Lady Knightsbridge in The Roundabout, a J. B. Priestley play, at 59E59 Theaters for the 2017 Brits Off Broadway festival. Later roles include Summer 1954 and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and in 2026 she played Lady Saltburn in Noël Coward's Present Laughter at the Theatre Royal Bath and on a national tour.