A cut page from an autograph album signed in person by Angharad Rees (1944 – 2012),  the English actress best known for her television roles during the 1970s and in particular her leading role as Demelza in the BBC TV costume drama Poldark. Rees made her television debut as a parlour maid in 1968 in Man and Superman, appearing alongside Eric Porter and Maggie Smith. Other appearances in various television dramas and comedy series quickly followed, including The Way We Live Now, The Avengers, The Wednesday Play, Doctor in the House, Crown Court and Within These Walls. She starred as the murderous daughter of Jack the Ripper in the Hammer horror film Hands of the Ripper (1971); other film roles included Jane Eyre (1970), To Catch a Spy (1971), The Love Ban (1973), Moments (1974), La petite fille en velours bleu (1978), The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980), the television miniseries Master of the Game (1984) and The Wolves of Kromer (1998), a British-made fantasy film narrated by Boy George. From 1975 to 1977 she played the lead role of Demelza in Poldark, the role with which she is most closely associated, and In 1983 she starred in another Cornish-set period drama The Forgotten Story, also based on a Winston Graham novel. Later television work included the sitcom Close to Home (1989–90) and the sporting drama series Trainer (1992). She was killed by pancreatic cancer at age 68.

Angharad Rees

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