Sylvestra Le Touzel
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| Sylvestra Le Touzel | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1958 (age 65–66) Jersey, Channel Islands |
| Occupation | actor |
| Spouse(s) | Owen Teale (2001-present) |
Sylvestra Le Touzel (born 1958) is a British television, film and stage actor who was born on Jersey in the Channel Islands and raised in Kensington, London. She was schooled in East Acton.
Television
Her first television role was in the Doctor Who story The Mind Robber, playing one of the children who bedevil the Second Doctor and his companions in the 'Land of Fiction'. She co-starred in the BBC Schools "Look and Read" series, playing Helen in their 1971 cult serial The Boy from Space,[1] which was re-edited with a new introduction in 1980.[2] A well-known early role was that of Fanny Price in the BBC dramatisation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1983).[3]
Le Touzel has also been seen on the small screen in shows as diverse as Dixon of Dock Green, The Brontes of Haworth, The Uninvited, The Professionals, Lovejoy, Alas Smith and Jones, Midsomer Murders, My Family and The Long Walk to Finchley (as Patricia Hornsby-Smith). In 1994 she played Sarah Teale in the TV series Between the Lines. In 2007, she also played the role of Mrs Allen in the ITV adaptation of Northanger Abbey. She has also played Harriet Waterhouse in the ITV drama Bonkers.[4]
She also appeared in a classic Heineken advert "The Water in Majorca" with Bryan Pringle.[5] This advert, first aired in 1985, was ranked at number 9 in Campaign Live's 2008 list of the "Top 10 Funniest TV Ads of All Time",[6] and at number 29 in Channel 4's list of the "100 Greatest TV Ads" in 2000.[7]
Le Touzel starred in the second episode of Dirk Gently as Emelda Ransome. She portrayed Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon in the 2012 ITV mini-series Titanic.
In 2015 Le Touzel appeared as Sandra Kendrick in the BBC TV series Death in Paradise episode 4.7
Film
Le Touzel played Marianne Thornton in the 2006 film Amazing Grace and appeared in Happy-Go-Lucky.
In 2012 film Cloud Atlas, she portrayed three different characters through the movie: Haskell Moore's Dinner Guest 5, Nurse Judd and Aide in Slaughtership.
Personal life
Le Touzel married Welsh actor Owen Teale in 2001 (after meeting during a production of Henry IV in 1991), and they have two children together.[8] Le Touzel is a supporter of charitable theatre and is currently (as of 2014) a patron of Montage Theatre Arts in London along with fellow British actress Debby Bishop.[9]
References
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External links
- Sylvestra Le Touzel at the Internet Movie Database
- Sylvestra Le Touzel at the BFI
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- British film actresses
- British stage actresses
- British television actresses
- Living people
- 1958 births
- Date of birth missing (living people)
- Jersey actresses
- 21st-century British actresses
- 20th-century British actresses
