Annette Badland

At 73 years old, Annette Badland has this physical status:

Annette Badland (born 26 August 1950) is an English actress known for a variety of roles on television, radio, stage, and film.

Margaret Blaine, a character in Outlander's season 1 and Babe Smith's long-running soap opera EastEnders, is best known for her appearances as Margaret Blaine in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, Mrs. Glenna Fitzgibbons, and Babe Smith.

In 1993, she was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, by Jim Cartwright's play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.

Early life

Badland was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, on August 26th, 1950. Her mother, a native of Loanhead, Scotland, moved to Birmingham after WWII to work as a munitions and aircraft operator in the factories, where she met Badland's father. Her family used to go to Scotland for holidays and to visit relatives, or else they holidayed in Wales. Badland was enrolled in acting at East 15 Acting School in Loughton, Essex, where she spent time in "rep" at the Southwold Summer Theatre. An Equity Card and the right to work in the professional theatre were earned as a result of her appearance in Private Lives for the Summer 1970 season.

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Career

Badland spent time as an actress in drama school, and her first professional appearances were in director Noel Willman's Three Arrows (by Iris Murdoch) and Richard Cottrell's Ruling the Roost (Georges Feydeau). At the end of the year, she continued to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford in 1973. Toad Hall, Toad Hall, Lancaster). As You Like It was her first appearance in a major company.

Badland appeared on Jim Cartwright's film The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, a portrayal of a lonely young woman from Lancashire who expresses herself through song, performed at the Aldwych Theatre from October 1992 to February 1993. In 1994, she appeared in Tony Kushner's post-Communist tragedy Slavs!, which explored the post-Soviet era's consequences.

Badland, a play based on Muriel Sparks' book about an otherwise optimistic tutor who has a smear of fascist leaders, had Badland as the headmistress of London's West End in 1998. In both David Lan's 1999 production of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore' and his 2002 production of Doctor Faustus at the Young Vic Theatre in London, she went on to perform opposite Jude Law.

Badland appeared at The Peter Hall Company in Bath, England, in 2006. Measure for Measure, Shakespeare's first book, a drama centring on protagonist Isabella's moral ambiguity of whether or not to sacrifice her virginity to save her brother. Habeas Corpus, writer Alan Bennett's ensemble work, was a farce written in 1971 and set to contemporary music of that period. She returned to work with Hall in 2007 in a production of No.l Coward's The Vortex at London's Apollo Theatre.

Badland performed in Michael Bhim's The Golden Hour, a dramatic set in a London hospital where the main character discovers a baby that he believes has been admitted to the country unlawfully. She appeared in Michael Frayn's play Alphabetical Order, which is also set in a provincial newspaper library, that same year. Badland's comedy Blithe Spirit, directed by Nol Coward in Manchester, England, finished out 2009.

Badland starred as the headmistress in Kin, a tragic play about young girls' lives in boarding school, despite a cast largely made up of children. At the Bristol Old Vic Theatre, she went from there to appear in Far Away, Caryl Churchill's dystopian drama in which the future is war.

Badland accepted work with The Globe Theatre in London in their production of Blanche McIntyre's The Winter's Tale, which was broadcast live to theatres in October of that year, and Matt Hartley's Eyam, based on the true story of a Derbyshire village that voluntarily quarantined themselves during a Black Plague epidemic. Badland appeared in two separate productions at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London during the first quarter of 2019. Edward II, where she portrayed Mortimer, was the first of two sequels to Marlowe's Edward II, where she portrayed Gertrude Stein.

Badland was made a patron of The Old Rep Theatre in Birmingham, Birmingham, in September 2019. "Whatever you can do or wish you can do, begin it," the theatre's patron says.

She appeared in Our Lady of Blundellsands, Jonathan Harvey's latest play written as one of the two sisters in the dysfunctional Domingo family's dysfunctional Domingo family.

She was the only performer in a special event held in Brixham Harbour in September 2021 on the 131st anniversary of crime writer Agatha Christie's birth in September 2021: appropriately, the audience of 30 people was sworn to secrecy, and the event was not announced in advance.

Badland's first commercial television appearance was for Thames Television's feature length biopic The Naked Civil Servant, in 1975, where she portrayed the tap-dancing pupil. She appeared in one episode of BBC Two's The Devil's Crown, an episode of Southern Television's Spearhead, made-for-TV film Flat Bust, BBC One's Shoestring, and Thames Television's The Dick Emery Hour between 1978 and 1980. Charlotte was a regular star in BBC's crime drama Bergerac (1981–84), a four-episode stint in Thames Television's Great Expectations, and several episodes of BBC Two's comedy The Last Song.

Badland appeared in several guest-starring roles in episodic television in 1982. In the series three episode "Solution," ITV's crime drama The Gentle Touch, a police drama set in 1980's Britain, starred her. In both BBC's period drama Nanny and Thames Television's crime series Minder, she also appeared as a nurse. She appeared in PBS' Comedic mini-series Pictures, set during the golden age of silent films and was broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre in February 1983. Badland appeared on an episode of BBC Two's satirical mini-series The Old Men At The Zoo, which was based on Angus Wilson's dystopian book of the same name. Badland appeared on ABC's drama Lace, first broadcast in 1984, starring Angela Lansbury and Phoebe Cates. In the 1985 made for television sequel Lace II, she would reprise her role as Piggy Fassbinder. Badland will appear in Channel 4's made-for-TV film "A Pocket Full of Rye" as Gladys Martin, BBC's made-for-TV film As Sister Mercy, Dosen, Channel 4's children's anthology series Dramarama, and an episode of ITV's children's anthology film Dramarama.

Badland appeared as Christine in ITV's Troubles and Strife, which revolved around the effect a new young vicar had on the town's women. She continued to co-star in the PBS mini-series A Little Princess (1905), as well as a series one episode of the BBC's sitcom You Must Be the Husband. Badland appeared in a series of ITV/Channel 4's comedy sketch series Hale & Pace in 1988 before he appeared in a BBC series four episode ("Chinese Whispers" (1989). She appeared in "The Rough and The Smooth," an episode of BBC's medical drama Casualty, as well as CBS's made-for-TV film "The Pied Piper." Badland appeared as many characters in BBC One's children's series Happy Families, which was based on a collection of books by Janet and Alan Ahlberg from 1990 to 1991.

Badland appeared in a four-episode stint on BBC's Manchester-based comedy Making Out in 1991 and three episodes of the BBC One children's programme Archer's Goon in 1992. She appeared in two separate episodes of the family sitcom 2point4 Children, one in 1991 and another in 1993. Badland appeared in 1993's series 8 episode "Born Loser" on BBC's medical drama Casualty for the second time. She appeared in director Andy Wilson's mini-series The Mushroom Picker and producer Carol Wiseman's Goggle Eyes. Badland appeared in BBC's comedy Inside Victor Lewis-Smith from 1993 to 1995, offering an insight into comedian and journalist Lewis-Smith's thoughts when he was in a coma. During that time, she appeared on numerous television shows, including BBC drama Smokescreen, comedy Love Hurts with Zo Wanamaker, Frank Stubbs Promotes with Timothy Spall, Channel 4's comedy Blue Heaven, and children's program Mike & Angelo.

Badland appeared in three episodes of BBC's nominated children's show Jackanory, which featured celebrities reading bedtime stories for younger audiences in 1995. She appeared on a one episode of Stewart Lee and Richard Herring's comedy sketch comedy showcase Fist of Fun and a three-part episode of the British Comedy Award winning show Outside Edge. Badland appeared in BBC's drama Black Hearts in Battersea, an extension of Joel Aiken's novel of the same name, between 1995 and 1996. During this time, she appeared in NBC's two-part mini-series Gulliver's Travels, BBC's children's series The Demon Headmaster, and director Martyn Friend's made-for-TV movie Cuts.

In four of the eight episodes of BBC's gritty crime mini-series Holding On (1997), set in London and based on a sequence of unconnected characters, Badland played Brenda. Mr Wymi, a children's film that focuses on a young boy who designs a robot butler for his family, and ITV's children's program The Worst Witch, starring Sandra Chen from 1997 to 1998. Badland appeared on ITV's long-running police procedural The Bill in 1999 for the fourth time. She appeared in a series seven episode titled "Vital Statistics" (1991), a series eleven episode entitled "The Fat Lady Sings" (1995), and a series fifteen episode titled "Looking Forward" (1999). Badland appeared on BBC's medical drama Holby City opposite Patrick Stewart, TNT's made-for-TV film A Christmas Carol opposite Patrick Stewart, and ITV's Alan Bleast scripted mini-series Oliver Twist. Badland portrayed Aunt Glenda in BBC's dramatic comedy series Microsoap, in three episodes broadcast between 1999 and 2000. In the series one episode "A Woman's Right to Choose," she appeared in her first episode of BBC's medical drama Doctors.

Badland appeared in series four and five (2000/2001) on children's television series The Queen's Nose, first broadcast on CBBC, saw Badland play Mrs. Dooley in the role of Mrs. Dooley. She went on to appear in the made-for-TV film The Gentleman Thief and appeared in Hallmark's two-part miniseries The Monkey King. Born and Bred, She's next television appearance, was in 2002 as a guest star on BBC's family drama Born and Bred. Badland produced two more for television shows after this appearance. The Mayor of Casterbridge, a Thomas Hardy's book adaptation, was first on the front page, and second was Indian Dream for BBC Two. Badland appeared in BBC's Cutting It, a drama series set in a Manchester, England hair salon, from 2002 to 2005. Badland appeared in an Agatha Christie's adaptation in 2003, this time portraying Mrs. Spriggs in the series "Five Little Pigs" on ITV's Poirot's series nine premiere. In the series six episode "An Inspector Called," she appeared in her second episode of BBC's Doctors. Badland appeared in a number of television formats in 2005. In an episode of BBC Two's documentary series "Einstein's Unfinished Symphony," she began the year by portraying Einstein's nurse. In a four-episode stint on Coronation Street, a two-episode guest-starring role on BBC's court drama Judge John Deed, and an episode of BBC Three's dark comedy Twisted Tales, she returned to serialized television. Badland guest-starred as Wendy Wincott in a crossover episode of medical dramas Holby City and Casualty, where fans ultimately determined the fate of certain characters. Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen, a.k.a., was also portrayed by the actress. In the 2005 series "World War Three" and "Boom Town," Margaret Blaine appeared in "Margaret Blaine" and gave us insight on the Doctor Who Complete Series One Box Set.

Angela Robbins, a troubled prisoner with Dissociative Identity Disorder, was arrested in 2006 and appeared in an episode of ITV One's drama Bad Girls, starring Portraying Angela Robbins, who suffered from Dissociative Identity Disorder. In the series nine episode "Background Noise," she appeared in Hat Trick Productions' made for TV Film Miss Mary Lloyd and appeared in her third role on BBC's Doctors. Badland appeared in the first two seasons of ITV's comedy Kingdom (2008), as Stephen Fry, Channel 4's Coming Up, opposite Imelda Staunton, and Summerhill's made-for-TV film Summerhill. In BBC's All the Little Things (April/May 2009), she also portrayed the remarkably conservative Ethel Tonks, as well as Sarah Lancashire, Neil Pearson, Sarah Alexander, and Bryan Dick. Badland as Mahiri Crawford, a candid glimpse at work for up-and-coming women, was featured in BBC Three's miniseries Personal Affairs, as a candid glimpse at work life among up-and-coming women, and the made-for-TV film Whatever It Takes saw her portray the role of Connie. In her third appearance on BBC's medical drama Casualty, the singer appeared in "Every Breath you Take" (2009).

Badland appeared on BBC Doctors in four episodes "Love Thy Neighbour" and the pilot episode of Sky One's Little Crackers, a series of autobiographical shorts starring some of Britain's best comedians in 2010. Sheridan Smith's life and work, as well as an episode of BBC Two's documentary series The Faces of... focusing on Michael Caine's career, followed her next year. Badland appeared in four episodes as DoomsDay Dora and eight episodes as HoloDora from 2011 to 2015. In 2012, she appeared in many episodic series, including Channel 4's cult-hit Skins, her fifth and final episode of BBC's Doctors, and BBC's Casualty's Casualty. Badland appeared in the CBBC science fiction series Wizards vs Aliens from 2012 to 2014.

Badland was one of the main characters' mother in the award-winning web series 3some in 2013. She went on to act in a Sky One Playhouse Presents episode entitled "Snodgrass," which imagined what might have happened if John Lennon had left The Beatles before becoming well-known. She rounded out 2013 by appearing in an episode of comedy series You, Me & Them, as well as several episodes of Channel 4's Man Down. Badland will appear in BBC soap opera, EastEnders, as Babe Smith on December 12, 2013. On January 31, 2014, she made her first on-screen appearance in the episode's broadcast. Badland's character would be ending the serial and making her final appearance on February 9, 2017 as it was revealed by new executive producer Sean O'Connor in 2016.

Badland began to perform Mrs. Fitzgibbons in Starz's television adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's best-selling Scottish time travel book Outlander, beginning in 2014. "The Daughters of Jerusalem" by Judith Bunyon in the BBC's investigative series Father Brown "The Daughters of Jerusalem" as Judith Bunyon, before taking her Aunt Babe to visit the Farewell Pavilion.

Badland's Neil Dudgeon made the final of BBC's charity series Pointless Celebrities in May 2018, donating £500 to the Midland Langar Seva Society. Badland appeared on television shows including BBC One's Not Going Out, ITV Two's Children's series The Dumping Ground, CBBC's Children's drama Hold the Sunset, and Sky One's mystery series Agatha Raisin. Betty Jackson appeared on "The Fairies of Fryfam" as Betty Jackson. As Ms Rose King, she appeared on BBC's dramatic daytime comedy Shakespeare & Hathaway "Nothing Will Come of Nothing" in 2019. Dr. Fleur Perkins, Midsomer's resident pathologist, has appeared in series twenty (2019) of ITV's long-running crime drama Midsomer Murders.

Terry Gilliam's 1977 film Jabberwocky, based on Lewis Carroll's epic poem, was Badland's first film role, alongside Michael Palin and Harry H. Corbett. She will not return to film until 1986's independent feature Knights & Emeralds, which explored the repercussions of a white drummer's association with a predominantly black marching band. From there, she rose to prominence in director Jonnie Turpie's film Out of Order (1987) and Chris Newby's Anchores.

Both Badland and writer John Brosnan's horror film Beyond Bedlam (1994) and director Angela Pope's drama Captives, which focused on a prison dentist's illicit affair with an inmate, were featured in 1994. Director Paul Unwin's Oscar nominated short Syrup was her next film. She continued on to Xingu Film's comedyThe Grotesque (1995, aka Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets), director Philip Haas' drama Angels & Insects, director Angela Pope's drama Hollow Reed, and director Shane Meadows' sports drama TwentyFourSeven are among the many people involved. Badland co-starred in Little Voice (1998) as the friend of Mari's mother Mari (Brenda Blethyn). Mrs. Buchan, a black comedy exploring religious conviction, actor Mark Greenstreet's romantic comedy Caught In the Act, and Tall Stories' dramatic comedy Beautiful People, which focuses on the struggle between two Bosnian refugees in London, will be released next year.

Badland appeared in two feature films, the first was director David A Stewart's Honest, a black comedy set in London of the late 1960s starring Peter Facinelli; the second was Focus Films' Secret Society, a comedy in which many women working factory jobs by night are secretly sumo wrestling by night. Badlland appeared in comedy Redemption Road, dramatic comedy Club Le Monde, director Joe Perino's debut The Knickerman, and Caspian Productions' short film The Tale of Tarquin Slant were all filmed between 2001 and 2004. Badland contributed to Walt Disney's animated film Valiant, which is about a WWI carrier pigeon who joins the Royal Homing Pigeon Corps alongside Ewan McGregor and Tim Curry. She went on to appear in Tim Burton's full-length film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2006), thriller The Kovak Box (2006), and the drama Almost Adult (2006).

Martha Edwards appeared in Badland's first film, a comedy by director Gareth Lewis about a hit man running for asylum from his job. From there she progressed to appear in director Nic Cornwall's short film Mr Thornton's Change of Heart, appear in the film Three and Out opposite Colm Meaney, and appear in the thriller Legacy: Black Ops opposite Idris Elba. Badland, the first short film by three eighteen years old filmmakers, was funded by crowdfunding after attracting the attention of the public and celebrities in 2009. She appeared in Wish 143, the story of a young man struggling to live life before succumbing to cancer from director Ian Barnes, who was doing short films. Badland appeared in Mother's Milk, a drama based on Edward St. Aubyn's book of the same name, before returning to short films for 2013's The Girl In A Bubble and 2014's A Quiet Courage.

Badland appeared in two separate biopics in 2017. The first was the biographical drama A Quiet Passion, directed by Terence Davies and starring Cynthia Nixon, which chronicled poet Emily Dickinson's life. The Man Who Invented Christmas, directed by Baharat Nalluri and starring Dan Stevens, was the second installment in the series The Man Who Invented Christmas, which followed author Charles Dickens' attempt to beat writer's block and produce the bookla A Christmas Carol. Badland appeared in writer/director Callum Crawford's debut film, Degenerates, a film that revolves on a writer who is unable to sell his screenplay scripts, decides to make his own.

Badland began her radio work in 1992 with a role in David Halliwell's comedy Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs for BBC Radio 3. On BBC Radio 4 Extra's crime drama An Odd Body, she was cast as the lead role of DI Gwen Danbury in 1994, a role she would reprise in three series. Badland appeared on BBC Radio 4 Extra's comedy Smelling of Roses from 2000 to 2003 before being cast in the BBC Radio 4 radio drama Rolling Home, which centered on a group of people living in caravans (aka mobile homes/campers). Badland appeared in BBC Radio 4's play The Pool, which chronicles a Londoner's adventures while also starring Peter Wright, The Diary of a Nobody opposite Stephen Tompkinson, and Bumps and Bruises, which focuses on an unqualified woman struggling to run an antenatal (prenatal) class opposite Penelope Wilton. Richard Monk's Church, which was broadcast in February 2005 and starring Andrew Garfield, tells the tale of sex and faith through the eyes of two different men. In the long-running radio soap opera The Dead Seed" by Jack Woolley, she starred as Mrs. Yeobright and appeared in BBC Radio 4 Extra's version of Thomas Hardy's "Return of the Native."

Badland appeared on BBC Radio 4's Up with Peter Corey in 2006. In Jonathan Myerson's six-part radio dramatization of Boris Pasternak's epic story Dr. Zhivago, she will be back for a year. Badland appeared in BBC Radio 4's 15 Minute Drama The Way We Live Right Now (2008), Anthony Trollope's satirical book, but he was also a narrator for Heather Couper's Cosmic Quest, an astronomical history. On BBC Radio 3, Badland actor Frederico Garcia Lorca's 'Yerma, a poetic play exploring the concepts of love, infertility, and loneliness, appeared alongside Emma Cunniffe and Concrad Nelson. She appeared on several episodes of BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please, where readers' poems are selected by readers, as well as Chris Wilson's play Lump-Boy Logan, which concentrated on a boy with acne, was also featured on BBC Radio 3. Badland appeared in an episode celebrating poet Molly Holden's work later this year, according to BBC Radio 4 Extra's Poetry Extra. She appeared in an episode of Sebastian Baczkiewicz's dark fantasy-adventure radio program Pilgrim (2013), a collection of tales that followed the adventures of main character and immortal being William Palmer. Badland appeared in the role of Roman Goddess Venus on BBC Radio 4 in the two-part radio serial The Aeneid (2013), writer Hattie Naylor's adaptation of the epic poem by Virgil. Doing Time: The Last Ballad of Reading Gaol, based on Oscar Wilde's poem and showcasing odd historical data from the prison's archives, had Badland in 2014. In an episode titled "The Viewing," she continued to act as a reader for series one, episode five of Jenny Eclaire's short story vignette series Little Lifetimes. In director Jeremy Mortimer's drama Mrs. Pickwick, a commissioner for local government, she played the lead role in Mrs. Pickwick's Papers next year. Badland will reprise her role as Doctor Who's Margaret Blaine in the spin-off radio series Torchwood, which was announced in 2018. In May 2019, the episode, titled "Sync," was published.

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