From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rosemary Leach (18 December 1935 – 21 October 2017) was a British stage, television and film actress and singer. She was born at Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her parents were teachers related to Edmund Leach. She attended grammar school and RADA. After appearing in repertory theatres and the Old Vic she became well known to UK TV viewers between 1965-69 for playing Susan Wheldon, the mistress of building tycoon John Wilder (Patrick Wymark) in the TV boardroom drama The Power Game. Subsequently she became a familiar face on British television. In 1973, she played Aldonza/Dulcinea in the BBC production of Don Quixote (retitled The Adventures of Don Quixote), starring Rex Harrison and Frank Finlay. In 1981 she played Emilia opposite Bob Hoskins's Iago in the BBC Shakespeare's production of Othello. In 1982 she played Aunt Fenny in The Jewel in the Crown. Rosemary played a leading role as smitten Joan Plumleigh-Bruce in the six part ITV 1987 production of The Charmer (TV series) which starred Nigel Havers. In 1987, she was nominated for BAFTA's Best Supporting Actress for A Room with a View (1985). In 1992, Leach starred in An Ungentlemanly Act, a BBC television film about the first days of the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982, portraying the real-life Lady Mavis Hunt, wife of the islands' then-governor, Sir Rex Hunt. Leach plays the part of Anna in BBC Radio 4's No Commitments, and Susan Harper's mother in My Family. She made a guest appearance as 'Bessie' on Waterloo Road (the TV series), in Series 3 Spring Term. Since 1994, she has made occasional appearances in The Archers as Ellen Rogers, the ex-pat aunt of Nigel Pargetter. In 2001 Leach played a leading role as a charming murderess in Destroying Angel, an episode of Midsomer Murders. Recently she has played Queen Elizabeth II three times: in the 2002 television movie Prince William; in a 2006 updated edition of The Afternoon Play, entitled Tea with Betty; and in 2009's Margaret. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rosemary Leach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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• 2013May I Kill U? — Mags
• 2011The Great Ghost Rescue — The Queen
• 2010Mission London — Miss Cunningham
• 2009Margaret — The Queen
• 2006The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends — Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit
• Waterloo Road — Bessie
• Afterlife
• 2005The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million — Carol Samson
• 2004Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection — Lady Daisy Woodmouse / Old Mrs Eyebright (Voice)
• The Afternoon Play — HM The Queen
• The Royal — Hester Hindmarch
• 2002Prince William — Queen Elizabeth
• 2002The Baroness and the Pig — Margaret
• 2001Back Home — Mrs. Dickinson
• Perfect — Vera
• 2000Breathtaking — Mrs. Henshaw
• Doctors — Meg Carpenter
• My Family — Grace
• 2000Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? — Harold's Mother
• Tilly Trotter — Mrs Forefoot Meadows
• Berkeley Square — Nanny Collins
• 1998Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
• An Unsuitable Job for a Woman — Miss Markland
• Суто англійські вбивства — Evelyn Pope
• 1996Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night — Lady Daisy Woodmouse/Old Mrs. Eyebright
• Spywatch — Amy Hobbs
• The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge — Lady Daisy Woodmouse / Old Mrs Eyebright (voice)
• 1995Blood and Peaches — Nan
• Chiller — Mrs Leslie
• 1995Chiller: Toby — Mrs. Leslie
• The Buccaneers — Lady Brittlesea
• 1993Tender Loving Care — Mary
• 1993The Hawk — Mrs Marsh
• 1993The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Mrs. Tope
• 1993The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding — Tabitha Twitchit (voice)
• 1993The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck — Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit (voice)
• 1992An Ungentlemanly Act — Mavis Hunt
• Bunch Of Five — Mrs. Alcock
• Growing Pains — Joan Craddock
• Heartbeat — Miss Plum, Dorothy Plum
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales — Narrator (voice)
• The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends — Tabitha Twitchit (voice), Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit (voice)
• 1992Twelfth Night — Narrator (voice)
• Titmuss Regained — Dot Curdle
• 1990The Children — Scopy
• Up the Garden Path
• 1989Bosses From Hell
• May to December — Avril
• Screen One — Mary
• Summer's Lease — Nancy Leadbetter
• 1989The Winslow Boy — Violet
• 1988Across the Lake — Connie Robinson
• First Sight — Phyllis
• 1987Still Crazy Like a Fox — Eleanor Trundle
• The Charmer
• 1987When We Are Married — Clara Soppitt
• Casualty — Miranda Watts
• 1986Day To Remember — Hilda
• Sunday Premiere — Connie Robinson
• Worlds Beyond — Ann Cranley
• 1986Кімната з видом — Mrs. Honeychurch
• 1985Displaced Person — Sister Agnes
• 1985The 17th Bride — Esther
• 1985Turtle Diary — Mrs. Inchcliff
• Sharing Time — Belinda
• Swallows and Amazons Forever! — Mrs. Barrable
• The Jewel in the Crown — Aunt Fenny
• 1984This Office Life — Widow Rashman
• Dramarama — Beryl
• American Playhouse — Sister Agnes
• 1982The Critic — Mrs. Dangle
• 1982The Plague Dogs — Vera (voice)
• 1981All's Well That Ends Well — Widow of Florence
• 1981Othello — Emilia
• 1980Hands — Pam
• 1980S.O.S. Titanic — Mrs. Odgen (uncredited)
• 1979A Question Of Faith — Anna Petrovna
• 1978Disraeli — Queen Victoria
• Disraeli — Queen Victoria
• Life Begins at Forty — Katy Bunting
• The Sunday Drama — Vera
• The Velvet Glove — Annie Besant
• 1976Brief Encounter — Mrs. Gaines
• 1976Dad — Irene
• 1976Hindle Wakes — Mrs. Jeffcote
• Laurence Olivier Presents — Mrs Jeffcote
• Second Verdict — Lizzie Borden
• 1976Tiptoe Through the Tulips — Rita
• Rumpole of the Bailey — Mrs. Ida Tempest
• Sadie, It's Cold Outside — Sadie Potter
• 1975When Day Is Done — Rosemary Warne
• Armchair Cinema — Rosemary Warne
• Bedtime Stories — Ivy Burr
• Playhouse — Irene
• The Prince of Denmark — Laura
• Armchair 30 — Val
• 1973Ghost in the Noonday Sun — Kate
• 1973That'll Be The Day — Mrs. MacLaine
• 1973The Adventures Of Don Quixote — Dulcinea / Aldonza
• 1972Bermondsey — Iris
• Pebble Mill at One
• 1971Cider with Rosie — Mother
• Now Look Here...
• 1971The Mosedale Horseshoe — Helen
• 1971The Wild Duck — Gina Ekdal, Hedvig's mother
• 1970Chariot of Fire — Shelley Mitchell
• Germinal — Maheude
• Play for Today — Rita
• The Roads to Freedom — Marcelle
• 1969Birthday
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Judy Williams, Mary Nichols
• Judge Dee — Madame Ko
• 1969Never Talk to Strangers — Olive Bunclark
• Strange Report — Mary Hanson
• 1968Toggle — Jean Marfield
• ITV Playhouse — Faith, Helen, Pam
• BBC Play of the Month — Gina Ekdal, Dulcinea / Aldonza, Mrs Dangle
• Gideon's Way — Marion Grove
• Londoners — Liz
• Serjeant Musgrave's Dance — Annie
• The Power Game — Susan Weldon
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Iris Purvis, Josie
• 1964Face of a Stranger — Mary Bell
• 1964Sharp at Four — Jean Hobley
• The Wednesday Play — Shelley Mitchell, Katharine Elliott, Jean Marfield, Jess
• Theatre 625 — Margaret, Claire
• Шерлок Голмс — Kitty Winter
• Z-Cars
• Edgar Wallace Mysteries — Mary Bell
• Armchair Theatre — Amy, Jean Hobley, Fay Morton, Sheila
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Mrs. Gaines

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• An Audience with... — Self
• Horizon — Self - Narrator (voice)