12 Facts About Rosemary Leach

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Rosemary Anne Leach was a British stage, television and film actress.

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Rosemary Leach won the 1982 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a New Play for 84, Charing Cross Road and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her roles in the films That'll Be the Day and A Room with a View.

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Rosemary Leach appeared in several TV mini-series, including Germinal, The Jewel in the Crown, The Charmer, The Buccaneers and Berkeley Square, and had a recurring role on the sitcom My Family.

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Rosemary Leach played a leading role as smitten Joan Plumleigh-Bruce in the six-part ITV 1987 production of The Charmer which starred Nigel Havers.

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In 1992, Leach starred in An Ungentlemanly Act, a BBC television film about the first days of the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982, portraying the real-life Lady Mavis Hunt, wife of the islands' then governor, Sir Rex Hunt.

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In 1995, Rosemary Leach participated in the popular BBC miniseries The Buccaneers a five-part television adaptation of Edith Wharton's unfinished novel.

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Rosemary Leach played the part of Anna in BBC Radio 4's No Commitments, and Susan Harper's mother Grace in My Family.

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Rosemary Leach made a guest appearance as 'Bessie' on Waterloo Road, in Series 3 Spring Term.

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Rosemary Leach portrayed Miss Twitterton in the Radio 4 adaptation of the Lord Peter Wimsey story Busman's Honeymoon, first broadcast in 1983.

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Rosemary Leach played Queen Elizabeth II three times: in the 2002 television movie Prince William; in a 2006 updated edition of The Afternoon Play entitled Tea with Betty; and in 2009's Margaret.

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Rosemary Leach played "Miss Plum" in an episode of Heartbeat called "Every dog his day" in 2004.

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Rosemary Leach died at Charing Cross Hospital, in London, aged 81, in 2017 following a short illness.