Annabel Leventon

Known for ActingBorn 1942-04-20 (age 84)Hertfordshire, England, UK

Judith Annabel Leventon (born 20 April 1942 in Hertfordshire, England) is an English actress who has acted in various roles on stage and television. While reading English at the University of Oxford she made several appearances at the Oxford Playhouse and toured France as Desdemona in the Oxford University Dramatic Society's production of Othello. She then joined the Fourbeats pop group, played at the Edinburgh Festival and continued in various other OUDS productions. On obtaining her BA she gained a grant to LAMDA and made her professional stage debut in Leicester. In December 1967 she left for America where she joined Tom O' Horgan's La MaMa troupe in New York and worked with them for seven months before returning to Britain. She was in the original London cast of Hair in 1968 at the Shaftesbury Theatre, also directed by O'Horgan. She went on to direct and appear in the show in Paris. She also appeared in the original London production of The Rocky Horror Show. Her first TV appearance was in The White Rabbit in 1967, and she went on to appear in a number of long-running series over the next four decades. Her film credits include roles in Come Back Peter (1969), Le Mur de l'Atlantique (1970), Every Home Should Have One (1970), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Shock Treatment (1981), Real Life (1984), Defence of the Realm (1986), M. Butterfly (1993), Wimbledon (2004) and A Royal Night Out (2015). In 2013, Leventon appeared in the role of Constance, the Madwoman of the Flea Market, in the British premiere of Jerry Herman's Dear World at the Charing Cross Theatre, London. In 2023, Leventon appeared in the role of Edith Tellmann in the British premiere of Bjørg Vik's The Journey to Venice at the Finborough Theatre, London. For this role, she was nominated for an Offie for Lead Performance in a Play. She is the author of The Real Rock Follies: The Great Girl Band Rip-Off of 1976, released in 2017. Source: Article "Annabel Leventon" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.Read more

Movies & web series

Strike it Rich!

Love and Marriage

On Giant's Shoulders

On a Paving Stone Mounted

A Series of Bird's

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell

Vera

A Touch of Frost

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Ian Fleming: Bondmaker

Minder

The New Avengers

Real Life

Penmarric

BBC2 Play of the Week

Work Experience

ITV Playhouse

A Royal Night Out

Chillers

Rock Follies

Bergerac

M. Butterfly

Dempsey and Makepeace

Chivalry

Defence of the Realm

The Nest

Wimbledon

Van der Valk

Atlantic Wall

Shock Treatment

Lennon Naked

Armchair Theatre

Mussolini: The Untold Story

Alive and Kicking

A Business Affair

Every Home Should Have One

Some Like It Sexy

Still Life

This Camera is Broken

Sunday Worship

Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood

The Actual Woman

Vérité

You've Made Your Bed - Now Lie in It