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Annabel Leventon
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Judith Annabel Leventon (born 20 April 1942 in Hertfordshire, England) is an English actress who has acted in various roles on stage and television.
While reading English at the University of Oxford she made several appearances at the Oxford Playhouse and toured France as Desdemona in the Oxford University Dramatic Society's production of Othello. She then joined the Fourbeats pop group, played at the Edinburgh Festival and continued in various other OUDS productions.
On obtaining her BA she gained a grant to LAMDA and made her professional stage debut in Leicester. In December 1967 she left for America where she joined Tom O' Horgan's La MaMa troupe in New York and worked with them for se…
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Judith Annabel Leventon (born 20 April 1942 in Hertfordshire, England) is an English actress who has acted in various roles on stage and television. While reading English at the University of Oxford she made several appearances at the Oxford Playhouse and toured France as Desdemona in the Oxford University Dramatic Society's production of Othello. She then joined the Fourbeats pop group, played at the Edinburgh Festival and continued in various other OUDS productions. On obtaining her BA she gained a grant to LAMDA and made her professional stage debut in Leicester. In December 1967 she left for America where she joined Tom O' Horgan's La MaMa troupe in New York and worked with them for seven months before returning to Britain. She was in the original London cast of Hair in 1968 at the Shaftesbury Theatre, also directed by O'Horgan. She went on to direct and appear in the show in Paris. She also appeared in the original London production of The Rocky Horror Show. Her first TV appearance was in The White Rabbit in 1967, and she went on to appear in a number of long-running series over the next four decades. Her film credits include roles in Come Back Peter (1969), Le Mur de l'Atlantique (1970), Every Home Should Have One (1970), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Shock Treatment (1981), Real Life (1984), Defence of the Realm (1986), M. Butterfly (1993), Wimbledon (2004) and A Royal Night Out (2015). In 2013, Leventon appeared in the role of Constance, the Madwoman of the Flea Market, in the British premiere of Jerry Herman's Dear World at the Charing Cross Theatre, London. In 2023, Leventon appeared in the role of Edith Tellmann in the British premiere of Bjørg Vik's The Journey to Venice at the Finborough Theatre, London. For this role, she was nominated for an Offie for Lead Performance in a Play. She is the author of The Real Rock Follies: The Great Girl Band Rip-Off of 1976, released in 2017. Source: Article "Annabel Leventon" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Still Life
as The Mother
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
The Nest
as Patricia Davis
This Camera is Broken
as The Director
Sunday Worship
as Rose Champion
A Royal Night Out
as Lady MacCloud
Lennon Naked
as Rich Lady
No Poster
Ian Fleming: Bondmaker
as Eve Fleming
Wimbledon
as Pauline Rossdale
Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell
as Various
Alive and Kicking
as Paris Mourner
A Business Affair
as Literary Guest
M. Butterfly
as Frau Baden
Work Experience
as Wealthy Woman
Defence of the Realm
as Trudy Markham
Real Life
as Carla
Shock Treatment
as DTV Audience Member (uncredited)
Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
as Good Fun Cast Member (uncredited)
On Giant's Shoulders
as Journalist
On a Paving Stone Mounted
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
as The Transylvanians
The Actual Woman
as Caro
Vérité
as Shirley
Atlantic Wall
as Sybil, British non-commissioned officer
Every Home Should Have One
as Chandler's Secretary
No Poster
You've Made Your Bed - Now Lie in It
as Chico
Some Like It Sexy
as Creampuff, Hippie