- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAngela Margaret Leslie Thorne
- Angela Thorne was born on January 25, 1939 in Karachi, Sindh, British India. She was an actress, known for To the Manor Born (1979), The BFG (1989) and Mystery and Imagination (1966). She was married to Peter Penry-Jones. She died on June 16, 2023 in Battersea, London, England, UK.
- SpousePeter Penry-Jones(September 22, 1967 - March 11, 2009) (his death, 2 children)
- Children
- She is an English actress of stage, television and film who is best known for her roles in To the Manor Born, as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton's best friend Marjory Frobisher, and as Margaret Thatcher in Anyone for Denis?.
- After repertory seasons at York and Sheffield, she appeared in Night Must Fall at Theatre Royal, Windsor. Thorne then joined the Ralph Richardson Theatre company at the the Haymarket Theatre, and played Gloria in You Never Can Tell, Portia in the Merchant of Venice and Julia in The Rivals.
- The daughter of an Indian Army doctor father, William Herbert Alfred Thorne, and a teacher mother, Sylvia (Leslie), she spent the first five years of her life in India.
- She trained for the stage at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
- In 1989, she voiced the role of Elizabeth II in The BFG, the film adaptation of Roald Dahl's book.
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