Belinda Carroll
| Belinda Carroll | |
|---|---|
| Born |
22 July 1945 Oxford, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse(s) |
Simon Williams (divorced) Michael Cochrane |
| Children | Tam Williams Amy Williams Tomas Cochrane |
| Parent(s) | John F. Carroll Hazel Bainbridge |
| Relatives | Kate O'Mara (sister) |
Belinda Carroll (born 22 July 1945, in Oxfordshire) is an English stage and television actress.
Carroll's parents were John F. Carroll, a flying instructor with the Royal Air Force, and actress Hazel Bainbridge (1910 – 7 January 1998). Her maternal grandfather was manager of the Oxford Playhouse theatre and she herself recalled that she was "fifth generation of an acting family ... mostly actor managers". Carroll's elder sister was actress Kate O'Mara (1939-2014), the two attending a convent boarding school in Chertsey which, according to Carroll, they both found miserable. Subsequently, she trained in provincial repertory, joining the Wimbledon Repertory Company after leaving school, and made her debut in London's West End at age 20, when she took over the role of Marion from Barbara Ferris in Terence Frisby's long-running comedy There's a Girl in My Soup, opposite Donald Sinden and Clive Francis.
Other stage roles from the late 1960s to early 1980s included parts in His, Hers and Theirs with Gladys Cooper; The Pleasure of His Company with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Peter Pan (as Wendy) with Dorothy Tutin; with Jean Kent and David Jason as the often skimpily clad Frances Hunter in No Sex, Please – We’re British; Charley’s Aunt with John Inman; and as Anne Meredith in Agatha Christie's Cards on the Table (1981).
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