Anna Cropper

At 68 years old, Anna Cropper has this physical status:

Anna Cropper (13 May 1938 – 22 January 2007) was an English stage and television actress.

Early years

Cropper was born in Brierfield, Lancashire, the daughter of Margaret, a stage actress and director, and Jack Cropper, a dentist. The family lived on Todmorden Road in Burnley during her early life.

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Career

In London, Cropper studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Chrysalis in The Insect Play (1960), based on the Czech brothers Josef and Karel apek's 1921 play. In 1962, she appeared in Emergency Ward ten times and three times on Coronation Street.

In In Two Minds (The Wednesday Play, BBC, 1967), she came to prominence as a young schizophrenic. (The Wednesday Play, BBC, 1967) by David Mercer. The Best Television Play of 1967 won the Writer's Guild Award for the Best Television Play of 1967.

In All Neat (1968), Cromwell (1970), and Nanou (1986), she appeared in film roles. In 1972, she appeared in The Exorcism television show, but it was in 1975 that she took over the lead role in the West End stage version after actress Mary Ure died of an overdose in the play's first night.

In the BBC docudrama The Lost Boys (1978), she played Mary Hodgson, the nurse of the boys who inspired the creation of Peter Pan. Two episodes of the BBC's Play for Today as Norah Palmer in the James MacTaggart-directed Robin Redbreast (1970), a Christmas supernatural thriller by John Bowen and Dennis Potter's play Schmoedipus (1974), were among other television performances.

She appeared in The Jewel in the Crown (1984) and appeared in Anna of the Five Towns (1985), a BBC period drama. Her last television appearance is for an episode of Midsomer Murders named Death's Shadow (1999).

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