Angharad Rees (Actor)

Reviews of Angharad Rees Movies

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Movies starring Angharad Rees have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 50%.

Hands of the Ripper - released in 1971 - is Angharad Rees's highest rated movie, with a score of 58% based on 22 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Angharad Rees is Baffled! - released in 1973 - with a score of 45% based on 2 reviews.

Actor Biography

Angharad Rees was a London-born Welsh actress and, later, jewellery designer, best known for her British television roles during the 1970s and in particular her leading role as Demelza in the 1970s BBC TV costume drama "Poldark".

Her father was a prominent Welsh psychiatrist Linford Rees (William Linford Llewellyn Rees) and mother Catherine Thomas.

When she was two, in 1946, her family returned to Wales to live into Cardiff. Rees studied at the Sorbonne in Paris for two terms and the Rose Bruford Drama College in Kent, England. She also studied at the University of Madrid and taught English in Spain before acting in repertory theatre in England.

On 18 September 1973, Rees married the actor Christopher Cazenove. They had two sons: Linford James and Rhys William. Linford was killed in a car accident on the M11 motorway in Essex while driving to pick up books from Cambridge University, where he had been awarded the degree of Master of Philosophy. Cazenove and Rees divorced in 1994 but remained close. Cazenove died from the effects of septicaemia in 2010. Rees later married David McAlpine, a member of the McAlpine construction company, at The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. She remained married to McAlpine until her death.

Rees founded a jewellery design company, Angharad, based in Knightsbridge, London, England.

Angharad Rees has acted in films with Raymond Burr, Leonard Nimoy, Vera Miles and Eva Marie Saint.

Angharad Rees has worked with these film directors: Philip Leacock, Peter Sasdy and Will Gould.