Judith Annabel Leventon (born 20 April 1942 in Hertfordshire, England) is an English actress who has acted in various roles on stage and television.[1][2]
While reading English at the University of Oxford she made several appearances at the Oxford Playhouse and toured France as Desdemona in the Oxford University Dramatic Society's production of Othello.[1] She then joined the Fourbeats pop group, played at the Edinburgh Festival and continued in various other OUDS productions.[1]
On obtaining her BA she gained a grant to LAMDA and made her professional stage debut in Leicester.[1] In December 1967 she left for America where she joined Tom O' Horgan's La MaMa troupe in New York and worked with them for seven months before returning to Britain.[1] She was in the original London cast of Hair in 1968 at the Shaftesbury Theatre, also directed by O'Horgan.[1][3] She went on to direct and appear in the show in Paris.[4] She also appeared in the original London production of The Rocky Horror Show.[5]
Her first TV appearance was in The White Rabbit in 1967, and she went on to appear in a number of long-running series over the next four decades.[6][7]
Her film credits include roles in Come Back Peter (1969), Le Mur de l'Atlantique (1970), Every Home Should Have One (1970), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Shock Treatment (1981),[8] Real Life (1984), Defence of the Realm (1986), M. Butterfly (1993), Wimbledon (2004) and A Royal Night Out (2015).[9]
In 2013, Leventon appeared in the role of Constance, the Madwoman of the Flea Market, in the British premiere of Jerry Herman's Dear World at the Charing Cross Theatre, London.[10] In 2023, Leventon appeared in the role of Edith Tellmann in the British premiere of Bjørg Vik's The Journey to Venice at the Finborough Theatre, London.[11] For this role, she was nominated for an Offie for Lead Performance in a Play.[12]
She is the author of The Real Rock Follies: The Great Girl Band Rip-Off of 1976, released in 2017.[13]
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- ^ "Hair: The musical that 'changed theatre for ever'". BBC News. 27 September 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ West, Carinthia. "New era for the age of Aquarius" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ^ Palin, Michael (11 September 2014). Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988–1998. Orion. ISBN 9780297869627 – via Google Books.
- ^ "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Annabel Leventon". www.aveleyman.com.
- ^ Michaels, Scott; Evans, Davis, (2002). Rocky Horror: from concept to cult. Sanctuary Pub, Ltd. p. 238. https://books.google.ca/books/about/Rocky_Horror.html?id=_QccAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y.
- ^ "Annabelle Leventon". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 October 2017.
- ^ Billington, Michael (14 February 2013). "Dear World – review". The Guardian.
- ^ "The Journey to Venice review at Finborough Theatre, London by Bjørg Vik". The Stage. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
- ^ admin (9 March 2023). "Annabel Leventon - The Journey to Venice - Finborough #Offies 2023 #NewNoms: LEAD PERF IN A PLAY LEAD". The Offies. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
- ^ "'Without Rock Bottom, you wouldn't have had The Spice Girls'". Islington Tribune. Retrieved 15 September 2021.