1. Heather Jean Chasen was an English actress, known for her roles in soap operas; playing Valerie Pollard in the ITV soap opera, Crossroads, from 1982 to 1986 and guest roles in Doctors, Holby City and Family Affairs.
18 Facts About Heather Chasen
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Heather Chasen played the recurring role of Lydia Simmonds in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, a role which received positive reviews from critics and EastEnders crew and cast members.
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Heather Chasen's father fought as a trooper with the Norfolk Yeomanry in World War I In 1921, he left England to work at the Raffles Library and Museum in Singapore, marrying Chasen's mother, Agnes, in 1926.
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Heather Chasen appeared with Sybil Thorndike in Call Me Jacky, and toured with Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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Kirkwood later said "Lydia's storyline was perfect" and that Heather Chasen had made the part her own after Tyzack's departure.
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Heather Chasen appeared in other television programmes such as The Bill and The Harry Hill Show.
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Heather Chasen had guest roles in Z-Cars and Dixon of Dock Green and voiced a number of characters in the radio show The Navy Lark, particularly WREN Heather Chasen and "battle axe" Ramona Povey.
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Heather Chasen played Sylvie Leigh in Holby City and, for five episodes, Madge Bennet in the Channel 5 soap opera, Family Affairs.
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Heather Chasen played the "evil" headmistress in Schoolgirls in Uniform at the Battersea Arts Centre.
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In stage and theatre, Heather Chasen appeared in The Rat Trap.
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One of Heather Chasen's last plays was My Three Angels in which she played Madame Parole, other plays included, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Who Bombed Birmingham playing Margaret Thatcher, and The Lizard of Rock, in which she played the main role, appearing alongside actor Jack Hawkins.
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Heather Chasen opined that she had a "lovely time" playing Miss Marple in A Murder is Announced alongside Richard Todd and Barbara Murray.
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In 2009, Heather Chasen appeared in the award-winning Anglo-Russian feature film Season of Mists, playing Jane.
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Heather Chasen appeared alongside Marina Blake, Sergei Chonishvili, Ifan Huw Dafydd and ex-EastEnders actor Dudley Sutton.
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Heather Chasen was friends with, and previously had a relationship with, Amanda Barrie.
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In 1949, Heather Chasen married John Webster, and they had one son, Rupert, who played in Lindsay Anderson's if.
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Heather Chasen appears with Chasen in a 2013 short documentary, A Stage of Development.
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Heather Chasen appeared in the cast of the Seasons of Mists which won a number of awards internationally.