Lysette Anthony's French-born paternal grandfather, Alexander Victor Chodzko, was a mariner and journalist of Polish descent.
19 Facts About Lysette Anthony
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Lysette Anthony's childhood was made difficult by her mother's manic depression and schizophrenia and she left home at 19.
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In 1980, at age 16, Lysette Anthony was heralded as the "Face of the Eighties" by photographer David Bailey.
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Lysette Anthony was a successful model before she became known as an actress at the age of 20.
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Lysette Anthony made her first stage appearance at the Cambridge Theatre at age 10.
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Lysette Anthony has played the role of Joanna Lyppiatt in Noel Coward's Present Laughter and the role of Eleanor in Terry Johnson's Dead Funny at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
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Lysette Anthony starred for four years in the BBC sitcom Three Up, Two Down.
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Lysette Anthony portrayed Angelique Bouchard for eight episodes of the prime time revival of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows.
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Lysette Anthony played Miss Clarise Mimsers in The Dead Man's Gun in 1998 as well as Miss Scarlett in the third series of Cluedo on ITV in 1992.
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Lysette Anthony played the roles of Rachel Heath, a semi-regular character in The Bill and Veronica Cray in The Hollow, a two-part Poirot film for ITV.
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Lysette Anthony appeared briefly in Coronation Street on 13 August 2010 and as an American patient in Holby City in February 2013.
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Lysette Anthony portrayed the role as Lady Rowena in Ivanhoe in 1982.
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In February 2016, Lysette Anthony began appearing in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as Marnie Nightingale.
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Lysette Anthony's character was killed off in January 2022 after collapsing due to a brain injury caused by an explosion, ending Anthony's almost six-year-long run with the soap.
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In 2008, Lysette Anthony portrayed Clara Harris in the Doctor Who audio adventure Assassin in the Limelight.
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Lysette Anthony married Dutch artist and entrepreneur Luc Leestemaker in 1990; they divorced in 1995 after Lysette Anthony left Leestemaker for married American film director David Price whom she met while filming Dr Jekyll and Ms.
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Lysette Anthony went on to marry Price and they were together for two years until they divorced.
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Lysette Anthony was in a relationship with composer Simon Boswell from 2004 to 2010, with whom she has a son.
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In 2022 Lysette Anthony disclosed to Ok magazine that she had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease on the day she auditioned for Hollyoaks.