Belinda Carroll

Belinda Carroll (born 22 July 1945) is an English stage and television actress.

Background and early career Born in Oxfordshire, Carroll's parents were John F. Carroll, a flying instructor with the Royal Air Force, and actress Hazel Bainbridge (born as Edith Marion Bainbridge; 25 January 1910 – 7 January 1998). Her maternal grandfather was manager of the Oxford Playhouse theatre; Carroll recalled that she was "fifth generation of an acting family ... mostly actor managers". Carroll's elder sister was actress Kate O'Mara; the two attended a convent boarding school in Chertsey which, according to Carroll, they both found miserable. Subsequently, she trained in provincial repertory, joining the Wimbledon Repertory Company after leaving school, and made her debut in London's West End aged 20,

Stage and television Her other stage roles from the late 1960s to early 1980s included parts in His, Hers and Theirs with Gladys Cooper; The Pleasure of His Company with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Peter Pan (as Wendy) with Dorothy Tutin; with Jean Kent and David Jason as the often skimpily clad Frances Hunter in No Sex, Please – We’re British; Charley’s Aunt with John Inman; and as Anne Meredith in Agatha Christie's Cards on the Table (1981).

Carroll and Kate O'Mara performed together only twice, once on television as prostitutes with Ronnie Barker, and, when Carroll was in her sixties, touring for Bill Kenwright in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde.

Family Carroll was married first to actor Simon Williams, who also appeared in No Sex Please, We're British. They had two children, Tam and Amy Williams, also actors, before divorcing in the late 1970s. She married actor Michael Cochrane in 1979.