Thea Holme

Thea Holme (nee Johnston, 1904–1980) was a British actress and writer.

Holme was born Thea Johnston in 1904. Her father was the architect Philip Mainwaring Johnston. She studied art at The Slade and then theatre at the Central School of Drama. She made her professional stage debut in 1924 as Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream, at the Richmond Theatre. She was also a dramatist, adapting works for stage and radio, including Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey. She subsequently moved with her husband to Carlyle's House in Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London, when he became its curator, working for the National Trust. and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

She died in 1980. An obituary was published in The Times on 9 December. Her husband survived her, as did their son, Timothy Holme, an author of fiction.