Sarah Badel

Sarah Badel was born in London to the actors Alan Badel and Yvonne Owen and is a British actress who retired after a stage and screen career. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made her professional debut in January 1963 with the Bristol Old Vic company's touring Hamlet. Her London theater debut came in 1964 as Bella Hedley in Robert and Elizabeth, and the following year she reached Broadway in The Right Honourable Gentleman. She performed at the Chichester Festival Theatre and with the National Theatre Company, and took part in many radio dramas. On film, her first role was in the 1970 comedy Every Home Should Have One, later appearing in The Shooting Party (1985), Not Without My Daughter (1991), and Just Visiting (2001). Her television work includes Flora Poste in Cold Comfort Farm, Lizzie Eustace in The Pallisers, Katherine opposite John Cleese in the 1980 BBC Taming of the Shrew, and episodes of Cadfael.