Angharad Rees attended the independent Commonweal Lodge School, then the Sorbonne in Paris for two terms and the Rose Bruford Drama College in Kent.
12 Facts About Angharad Rees
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Angharad Rees studied at the University of Madrid and taught English in Spain before acting in repertory theatre in England.
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Angharad Rees made her television debut as a parlour maid in 1968 in an adaptation of Shaw's Man and Superman, appearing alongside Eric Porter and Maggie Smith.
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Angharad Rees starred as the fictional murderous daughter of Jack the Ripper in the Hammer horror Hands of the Ripper and the following year's star-studded film version of Under Milk Wood starring Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Taylor.
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Angharad Rees appeared in many stage productions in London's West End, including It's a Two-foot-six-inches Above-the-ground World ; The Picture of Dorian Gray ; The Millionairess ; Perdita in A Winter's Tale and A Handful of Dust.
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Angharad Rees toured in the Bill Kenwright production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, directed by Peter Hall, with Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray and appeared regularly with John Mortimer in Mortimer's Miscellany, his self-devised anthology of poetry and prose presented at theatres around Britain.
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Angharad Rees had a public house named after her in Pontypridd.
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On 18 September 1973, Angharad Rees married the actor Christopher Cazenove, who had made his name at around the same time in The Regiment.
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Angharad Rees had a relationship with British actor Alan Bates; on 29 April 2005, after Bates' death, Angharad Rees married at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, The Hon.
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Angharad Rees died on 21 July 2012, aged 68, of pancreatic cancer.
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Angharad Rees was anxious, I think, that she should not be defined, entirely, as the star of a popular series, as one half of a golden couple, as a mother and hostess, although she excelled in all of these.
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Angharad Rees wanted to be remembered as a serious actress whose early career might have gone on to greatness had she not made the personal decision to change direction [by having a family].