Deborah Grant

Deborah Jane Grant (born Deborah Jane Snelling; 22 February 1947) is an English actress. Between 1981 and 1991, she played Deborah Bergerac in the BBC television detective series Bergerac. From 2007 to 2023, she appeared in the sitcom Not Going Out as Wendy Adams, the mother of Tim (Tim Vine) and Lucy (Sally Bretton).

Early life Grant was born Deborah Jane Snelling, in Perivale, Middlesex, to Henrietta (née Finn) and Henry Percival Snelling, on 22 February 1947.

Grant trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and appeared on stage at the Bristol Old Vic and in the West End of London.

Career Grant had a successful television acting career.

Personal life Grant became Lady Child in 1971 when she married the baronet and actor Sir Jeremy Child, with whom she had a daughter.

Filmography

Television Public Eye – Rosemary (episode "A Fixed Address") Edward the Seventh – Young Princess Alexandra of Denmark/Princess of Wales Moonlight on the Highway - Marie Holdsworth The Power Game Danger UXB Crown Prosecutor Jonathan Creek Brum – Police lady Bread - Leonora UFO – Linda Simmonds (episode "The Psychobombs", 1970) Casualty Doctors Peak Practice – receptionist Carol Johnson Bergerac – Deborah Bouquet of Barbed Wire – Sarah Francis Another Bouquet – Sarah Roberts (née Francis) Minder – Lady Ingrave (episode "You Gotta Have Friends") Room at the Bottom – Celia Pagett-Smythe Victoria Wood As Seen On TV Victoria Wood Outside Edge Pat and Margaret – Stella Kincaid Not Going Out – Wendy Adams Mr Palfrey of Westminster – Yelena

Theatre Barnum (London Palladium, 1981)

Film I Want What I Want (1972) Scandal (1989) – Valerie Hobson London Has Fallen (2016) – Doris