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- Birth nameKatharine A Schlesinger
- Height5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
- Katharine Schlesinger was born in 1963 in Islington, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Doctor Who (1963), The Diary of Anne Frank (1987) and Screen Two (1984).
- Daughter of publisher and literary agent Roger Schlesinger, and niece of his siblings director John Schlesinger and actress Susan Maryott. Her mother, a stage manager, was a niece of Peggy Ashcroft, and is thought to be the sister of Margaret Ashcroft.
- Great niece of Dame Peggy Ashcroft.
- The romance of Jane Austen's novels were partly responsible for inspiring her to become an actress.
- Left drama school in 1984.
- Her first job was as a fairy and maids in Regents Park Open Air Theatre.
- I love Jane Austen. I love all those romantic classical books - 'Little Women' and the books that you read as a child.
- [on Northanger Abbey (1987)] I loved Catherine Morland. She's very direct and honest. She has no pretensions and admits to everything. She even admits to her own ignorance.
- I like the sort of material that deals with emotions and relationships and all the odd subtleties of people.
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