Wanda Ventham Biography, Age, Family, Husband, Career, Movies and TV Shows

Wanda Ventham Biography

Wanda Ventham is an English actress born on 5 August 1935 in Brighton, United Kingdom. She is known primarily for her role as Colonel Virginia Lake in the 1970s science-fiction television series UFO, and for her recurring role as Cassandra Trotter’s mother Pamela Parry in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1989–92. She also appeared in two episodes of The Saint alongside Roger Moore.

Wanda Ventham Age

She was born on 5 August 1935 . She is 83 years old as of 2018.

Wanda Ventham Family

Ventham was born in Brighton, to Gladys Frances and Frederick Howard Ventham. With her greatest dream being to become an artist, she attended art school for a year, whilst working as a scenic painter for the Connaught Theatre, in Worthing, West Sussex, during her school holidays. Due to exposure to professional theatre she decided to leave art school and pursue a career in acting. She went to the Central School of Speech and Drama, alongside Judi Dench, graduating in 1956.

Wanda Ventham Husband

Ventham got married to her first husband James Tabernacle in 1957 and they had one daughter, Tracy. However they divorced on 12 November 1974. Later she met actor Timothy Carlton in 1970 while filming sequences for the drama series A Family at War and they have been married since April 1976.

Wanda Ventham Children

She has two children Benedict Cumberbatch and Tracy Peacock

Wanda Ventham Career

Ventham’s first film role was in 1956 in My Teenage Daughter , with Anna Neagle and Sylvia Syms. In 1964 she appeared in Carry On Cleo and Carry On… Up the Khyber (1968). She starred in the mystery film, Death is a Woman in 1966, alongside Mark Burns . Her best known role was on television as Col. Virginia Lake, second in command to Cmdr. Ed Straker (Ed Bishop) in the cult series UFO.

Her other numerous TV credits include regular roles in Heartbeat as Fiona Weston, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates as Margaret Balshaw, and The Rag Trade as Shirley. She also played a love interest for Arthur Daley in Minder, Susan’s mother in Coupling, and Deborah’s mother in Men Behaving Badly. She played the lead role in the 15-part BBC series The Lotus Eaters (1972–73), opposite Ian Hendry, and made a guest appearance in Rutland Weekend Television. She appeared in an episode of Danger Man, and the series Patrick McGoohan completed immediately afterwards – the allegorical spy series The Prisoner – as well as the sitcoms Executive Stress and Next of Kin, and the sketch show The Two Ronnies.

She has appeared on three occasions in Doctor Who over three decades: as Jean Rock in The Faceless Ones (1967), as Thea Ransome in Image of the Fendahl (1977) and as Faroon in Time and the Rani (1987). She appeared in Image of the Fendahl opposite Denis Lill. The two later played Pamela and Alan Parry in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses.

She and her husband Timothy Carlton appeared in the BBC adaptation of Sherlock in 2014, as the parents of Sherlock Holmes, who is played by their son Benedict Cumberbatch. She also appeared in Holby City as Myrtle McKee, a hospital patient who leads a double life.

Movies and TV Shows

Movies

1. 1956 My Teenage Daughter
2. 1959 The Navy Lark
3. 1961 We Joined the Navy
4. 1962 Solo for Sparrow
5. 1964 Carry On Cleo
6. 1965 The Big Job
7. 1965 The Knack …and How to Get It
8. 1966 Death Is a Woman
9. 1966 The Spy with a Cold Nose
10. 1967 Mister Ten Per Cent
11. 1968 The Blood Beast Terror
12. 1968 Carry On Up the Khyber
13. 1974 Invasion: UFO
14. 1974 Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter
15. 2002 Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War
16. 2005 Asylum
17. 2012 Run for Your Wife
18. 2016 Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

TV Shows

1. 1962–1963 The Rag Trade
2. 1964–1965 Danger Man
3. 1964–1966 The Saint
4. 1965 The Likely Lads
5. 1965 The Avengers
6. 1967 The Prisoner
7. 1967 The Caesars
8. 1967–1971 The Troubleshooters
9. 1967, 1977, 1987 Doctor Who
10. 1969 The Gold Robbers
11. 1969 Department S
12. 1970 Z-Cars
13. 1970–1971 A Family At War
14. 1970 Doctor At Large
15. 1970–1973 UFO
16. 1971 Thirty-Minute Theatre
17. 1972–1973 The Lotus Eaters
18. 1975 The Sweeney
19. 1975 Rutland Weekend Television
20. 1976 Emmerdale Farm
21. 1977 Crown Court
22. 1978–1979 Fallen Hero
23. 1980 The Two Ronnies
24. 1982 Minder
25. 1986–1987 Executive Stress
26. 1988 All Creatures Great and Small
27. 1989 Capstick’s Law            Madge Capstick
28. 1989–1992 Only Fools and Horses
29. 1995–1996 Next of Kin
30. 1996–1997 Heartbeat
31. 2001 Coupling
32. 2005 Midsomer Murders
33. 2007 Lewis
34. 2014–2017 Sherlock
35. 2018 Holby City

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