Sarah Badel

Sarah M. Badel (born 30 March 1943) is a retired British stage and film actress. She is the daughter of actors Alan Badel and Yvonne Owen.

Life and career Badel was born in London to actor Alan Badel and actress Yvonne Owen. She was educated in Poles Convent, Hertfordshire and trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; she is now an Associate Member.

Sarah Badel made her acting debut in January 1963 in the Bristol Old Vic company's production of Hamlet, which was then touring India. Her first appearance in London theatre came in October 1964 in the part of Bella Hedley in Robert and Elizabeth at the Lyric Theatre. She made her Broadway theatre debut the following October playing Helen in The Right Honourable Gentleman at the Billy Rose Theatre.

In 1966, she performed at the Chichester Festival Theatre in such roles as Miss Fanny in The Clandestine Marriage and Anya in The Cherry Orchard. She returned to the Chichester Festival in 1967 and again in 1970. Other venues at which Badel has performed include the National Theatre Company and St George's Playhouse in Islington. Other television productions in which she took part include She Fell Among Thieves, The Irish R.M., the 1996 adaptation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and Just Visiting in 2001. She played Patricia Bradshaw in The Black Book, a 2009 episode of Midsomer Murders.

Filmography Film

Television Year Title Role Notes 1962 Armchair Theatre Veronica Episode: "Thank You and Goodnight" 1963 ITV Play of the Week Fay Episode: "The Heart of the Country"1968 Cold Comfort Farm Flora Poste Mini-series Mystery and Imagination Elizabeth Episode: "Frankenstein" 1969 W. Somerset Maugham Louise Episode: "Louise"1970 Armchair Theatre Sylvia Melville Episode: "The Prime Minister's Daughter" BBC Play of the Month Natasha Episode: "The Three Sisters"1972 The Visitors Milly Purdoe Mini-series Dead of Night Lorna Episode: "Bedtime"1973 Conjugal Rights Paula Mini-series Between the Wars Constance Lechdale Episode: "Now Lies She There"1974 The Pallisers Lizzie Eustace Mini-series Seven Faces of Woman Liz West Episode: "Let's Marry Liz" ITV Playhouse Madge Wakely Episode: "The Gift of Friendship" 1975 BBC Play of the Month Goneril Episode: "King Lear" 1976 Red Letter Day Nicola Episode: "The Five Pound Orange"1978 BBC2 Play of the Week Virginia Episode: "She Fell Among Thieves" Do You Remember? Peg Episode: "Park People" 1979 Thomas & Sarah Felicity Stokeleigh-Pomeroy Episode: "The Biters Bit"1981Play for Today Alice Dearth Episode: "Dear Brutus" Alice Pike Episode: "Bavarian Night" 1983 BBC Play of the Month Olwen Peel Episode: "Dangerous Corner" 1983–1985 Affairs of the Heart Jane Bonamy Series regular1985 The Irish R.M. Babs Mini-series Summer Season Natalaya Sergeyvena Episode: "The House on Kirov Street" 1987 A Perfect Spy Baroness Weber 1 episode 1988 Small World Hilary Swallow/Joy Simpson Mini-series 1990 Haggard Lady Tartlet 2 episodes 1991 Fiddlers Three Cynthia Episode: "The Dark Horse" 1992 The Cloning of Joanna May Angela Mini-series1994 Casualty Celia Cooke Episode: "Family Ties" Cadfael Avice of Thornbury Episode: "The Leper of St. Giles" 1995 Agatha Christie's Poirot Florence Hubbard Episode: "Hickory Dickory Dock"1996 The Vet Mrs. Eaves Episode: "Stormy Weather" Masterpiece Julia Fish Episode: "Heavy Weather" Cadfael Sister Magdalen Episode: "The Rose Rent" The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Rachel Mini-series1997 Heartbeat Susan Williamson Episode: "Fool for Love" A Dance to the Music of Time Lady Molly Mini-series 1998 Midsomer Murders Rosa Carmichael Episode: "Death of a Hollow Man" 2000 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Moira Wingrave Episode: "Harm Done"2001 Love in a Cold Climate Lady Kroesig Mini-series Hearts and Bones Moira Thomas 1 episode Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes Mrs. Berkley Episode: "The Photographer's Chair" Peak Practice Sheila Spencer 1 episode 2005 Fingersmith Mrs. Frobisher Mini-series 2008 Tess of the D'Urbervilles Mrs. Brooks 1 episode 2009 Midsomer Murders Patricia Blackshaw Episode: "The Black Book"

Theatre