Annabel Leventon

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 Societys 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 Horgans 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 OHorgan 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 longrunning series over the next four decades Her film credits include roles in Come Back Peter 1969 Le Mur de lAtlantique 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 Hermans Dear World at the Charing Cross Theatre London In 2023 Leventon appeared in the role of Edith Tellmann in the British premiere of Bjørg Viks 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 RipOff of 1976 released in 2017 Source Article Annabel Leventon from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA