Natasha Pyne

Natasha Pyne
Born	9 July 1946 (1946-07-09) (age 65) Crawley, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1963–2003
Spouse	Paul Copley (1972–?)

Natasha Pyne (born 9 July 1946), is an English actress.

Pyne started her career at the Royal Court in a production of John Osbourne's Inadmissible Evidence and followed it in productions at the Lyric and Royal Shakespeare Company. She is best known for her role in the British television sitcom series Father, Dear Father (as Anna Glover). Made by Thames Television an ITV London franchise. In the show Patrick Cargill was her father.

She appeared as Bianca in the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton film The Taming of the Shrew (1967). She also appeared in an episode of Jason King and also The Adventurer with Gene Barry. She also appeared in the Disney British film One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (as Susan, a young pretty nanny). She was in the movie Devil Ship Pirates. Her appearances now are mostly in television dramas such as The Bill. Pyne has also been in many Radio 4 plays.

She married the actor Paul Copley after performing with him in a 1971 production of Frank Wedekind's Lulu, directed by Peter Barnes in Leeds.

In 2007, she guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio play I.D..

Filmography

Film

• The Devil Ship Pirates (1964)
• The Idol (1966)
• Who killed the cat? (1966)
• The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
• The Breaking of Bumbo (1970)
• Father, Dear Father (1973)
• Madhouse (1973)
• One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975)

Radio work

She was in BBC's Radio Drama Company (RDC) in the mid-1980s and appeared in numerous Radio 4 plays and readings. Also she did Drama on 3 and Children's BBC Radio 5 (former).

• Whale Music (play) (Anthony Minghella) (1986)
• The Clockmaker of Cordoba (1986)
• All's Well That Ends Well (1986)
• Searching The Ashes (1986)
• The Making Of Frankenstein (1986)
• Count Omega (1987)
• The Demon Headmaster (1990)
• The Secret Garden (1991)
• Mrs Donaldson at sixty (1991)
• The Wizard of Oz (1994)
• The Secret Life of my Aunt Fanny (1994)
• Thirty Minute Theatre - An Afterlife (1995)
• Afternoon Play - Love To Hate (Wrote by Wally K. Daly)(2000)
• Afternoon Play - Ruth Ellis the son's story (2000)
• Afternoon Play - Best Of Luck, Phyllis Diller (2005)

Television

She was in Van der Valk when it was revived once again towards the end of Thames' life as a part of the ITV network, with four two-hour episodes of the fourth series in January and February 1991, and the fifth series three two-hour episodes in February 1992.

• Silas Marner (1964)
• The Wednesday Play - A Hero of Our Time (1966)
• Mystery and Imagination - Carmilla (1966)
• Haunted - "Through a Glass Darkly" (1968)
• Father Dear Father (1968–1973)
• Jason King (1972)
• The Adventurer (1972)
• Play For Today - A Brush with Mr Porter on the Road to Eldorado (1981)
• Van der Valk (1991–92)
• Cadfael (1998)
• The Bill (2000s)

External links

• Natasha Pyne at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Pyne, Natasha
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Date of birth	9 July 1946
Place of birth	Crawley, England
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