Jan Waters

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Jan Waters
Born
Janet Ruth Waters

(1937-01-28) 28 January 1937 (age 87)
OccupationActress
Years active1960–2004
Spouses
(m. 1970; div. 1976)
Philip York
(m. 2018; died 2019)
Children2

Jan Waters (born 28 January 1937) is an English actress of the theatre, television, and film. She was particularly active in the London theatre scene during the 1960s and 1970s, notably appearing in the original West End productions of Jule Styne's Do Re Mi and Noël Coward's High Spirits. She also appeared on British television and in a few British films during this time. She was once married to actor Peter Gilmore.

Career

Waters was born in

Old Vic Theatre, Ruth Condomine in the original West End production of Noël Coward's High Spirits (1964) at the Savoy Theatre, Polly Peachum in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1968) at the Apollo Theatre, and Miss Ethel Monticue in Margaret MacKenzie's The Young Visitors (1968) at the Piccadilly Theatre. Waters also appeared in the 1968 horror film Corruption and made several television appearances as a guest artist, including work on Crane (1964), The Rat Catchers (1966), The Saint
(1967), and Fraud Squad (1969) among others. She sang and acted in the BBC Radio Series Benny Hill Time in 1964. She was also a regular singer on the BBC radio series Beyond Our Ken in the very early 1960s.

During the 1970s Waters continued to remain active on the stage and in television. In 1970 she toured the

Softly Softly in 1975. Waters continued to make periodic stage and television appearance in the late 1970s, most notably portraying Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Portia in Twelfth Night in tours of the UK and the Far East with the Palace Theatre Company, Watford, Hertfordshire
.

In 1980 she played Queenie in

Lyric, Hammersmith and Savoy theatres. Her latterday screen appearances include Take the High Road in which she played the imperious Lady Margaret Ross-Gifford, Sweet Sixteen, Dramarama, Paradise Postponed, the 1987 film Lionheart, September Song and Doctors
.

In 2009 she appeared in the film Mr. Right. She is currently playing Mrs Boyle in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap at St Martin's Theatre, London. She is soon to embark on the first ever UK tour of The Mousetrap playing Mrs Boyle for the first 10 weeks of the tour.

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