1. Lisa Harrow was born on 25 August 1943 and is a New Zealand RADA-trained actress, noted for her roles in British theatre, films and television.
17 Facts About Lisa Harrow
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Lisa Harrow is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Nancy Astor in the British BBC television drama Nancy Astor.
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Lisa Harrow studied at the University of Auckland, and later graduated from RADA in 1968, joining BBC Radio's Repertory Company.
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Lisa Harrow took over the central role of Vivian Bearing in the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit in its long-running off-Broadway production in New York City.
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Lisa Harrow was named 2001 Performer of the Year in Pittsburgh for Medea.
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Lisa Harrow is known for playing Nancy Astor, the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons, in the 1982 BBC drama Nancy Astor.
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Lisa Harrow's first film role was in the Italian film The Devil Is a Woman starring Glenda Jackson.
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Lisa Harrow played Helen Alderson in the film adaptation of James Herriot's book All Creatures Great and Small, starring alongside Simon Ward and Anthony Hopkins.
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Lisa Harrow reprised the role the following year in the sequel It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet, this time opposite John Alderton and Colin Blakely.
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Lisa Harrow starred in the BBC2 series 1990 as Deputy Controller Lynn Blake.
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Lisa Harrow played journalist Kate Reynolds in the horror film Omen III: The Final Conflict starring Sam Neill, and worked with Neill again in Krzysztof Zanussi's film From a Far Country.
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Lisa Harrow starred in the New Zealand film Shaker Run in 1985, and played Lizzie Dickinson in the BBC series Lizzie's Pictures.
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Lisa Harrow won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in The Last Days of Chez Nous.
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In 1990, Lisa Harrow played the tart-tongued, ignored wife in a cunning family of rich brewers in Sins of the Father, Episode 13 of the Inspector Morse series for ITV, starring John Thaw.
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Lisa Harrow left the programme after the third series to move to America.
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In 1980, Lisa Harrow met Sam Neill while filming Omen III: The Final Conflict and the two have a son together.
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Lisa Harrow was married to whale biologist Roger Payne, and lived in Vermont, US.