Lisa Harrow

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Lisa Harrow
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
(1968)
OccupationActress
Spouse
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(m. 1991; died 2023)​
Children1

Lisa Harrow

Nancy Astor in the British BBC television drama Nancy Astor
.

Early life

Harrow was born in the Auckland suburb of Mount Eden on 25 August 1943, the daughter of Kennedy Mayo Harrow and Eleanor Joan Harrow (née Stacpoole).[1] She studied at the University of Auckland, and later graduated from RADA in 1968, joining BBC Radio's Repertory Company.

Acting career

Theatre

Harrow's stage career started at the

Theatre Royal, Haymarket
.

Harrow has performed on stage all over America. She took over the central role of Vivian Bearing in the

Yale Rep and the Chautauqua Theatre Company, where she also played Kate Keller in All My Sons. She played Creusa in the Washington Shakespeare Theatre Company's 3 October 2009–4/12/2009 production of Euripides's Ion
. [2]

Television and film

Harrow is known for playing

Masterpiece Theatre
.

Her first film role was in the Italian film The Devil Is a Woman (1974) starring Glenda Jackson. Also in 1976, she featured in an episode of Space: 1999 as Anna Davies in 'The Testament of Arkadia'. Harrow played Helen Alderson in the film adaptation of James Herriot's book All Creatures Great and Small (1975), starring alongside Simon Ward and Anthony Hopkins. She reprised the role the following year in the sequel It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet, this time opposite John Alderton and Colin Blakely.

Harrow guest-starred in The Professionals as a formidable counsel arguing at a Court of Inquiry for the disbandment of CI5 in the second-season episode 'The Rack' (1978), written by Brian Clemens. She also starred in the BBC2 series 1990 as Deputy Controller Lynn Blake.

Harrow played journalist Kate Reynolds in the horror film

The Kidnapped Prime Minister'. Her most recent television performance in Britain was as Kavanagh's wife Lizzie in the series Kavanagh QC
, also starring Thaw. She left the programme after the 3rd series (transmitted in 1997) to move to America.

In 2014, she played Marion in the New Zealand television series Step Dave.

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Sir Jerry Mateparae

In the 2015 New Year Honours, Harrow was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the dramatic arts.[3]

Personal life

In 1980, Harrow met

Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) and the two have a son together.[4]

She was married to whale biologist

whale songs'. The couple created a lecture/performance piece called "SeaChange: Reversing the Tide".[5]

Author

Harrow is the author of the environmental handbook What Can I Do?, published in separate editions for Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the United States. She has a website to promote the book.[6] The U.S. edition:

  • Harrow, Lisa (2004). What can I do? : an alphabet for living.
    LCCN 2004016720
    .     (pbk. : alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references.

Honours

In the

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the dramatic arts.[7]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "Births". The New Zealand Herald. 27 August 1943. p. 1. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Ion – 2008–2009 Season – Cast Biographies (Lisa Harrow)". Washington, D.C.: The Shakespeare Theatre Company. p. 20. Archived from the original on 1 May 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2009. She is the author of the environmental handbook What can I Do? with her husband, whale biologist Roger Payne.
  3. ^ "New Year honours list 2015". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  4. ^ Catherall, Sarah (28 March 2018). "Lisa Harrow reflects on the pivotal moments in her colourful career". The New Zealand Listener. Archived from the original on 15 July 2018.
  5. ^ SeaChange website
  6. ^ What Can I Do? | Hosted by Lisa Harrow (website)
  7. ^ "New Year honours list 2015". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2018.

External links

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