Angela Thorne

Angela Margaret Leslie Thorne (25 January 1939 – 16 June 2023) was an English actress of stage, television and film having performed roles in World in Ferment (1969), Get Some In! (1976), The Good Life (1977), Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War and Heartbeat, The BFG (1989) as the voice of the Queen, Three Up, Two Down and Lassie (2005). However, she was probably best known for playing Marjory Frobisher in To the Manor Born (1979–1981), and for playing Margaret Thatcher in Anyone for Denis? (initially at the Whitehall Theatre in 1981, for which she was nominated for Best Comedy Performance at the 1981 Laurence Olivier Awards, and subsequently for the video release). Early life Angela Thorne was born in Karachi, British India, in 1939. The daughter of an Indian Army doctor father, William Herbert Alfred Thorne, and a teacher mother, Sylvia ( Leslie), she spent the first five years of her life in India. She was later a pupil at Farlington School in Horsham, West Sussex. She trained for the stage at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In the BBC programme Who Do You Think You Are? featuring son Rupert, broadcast in August 2010, it was revealed that Thorne's father William had served with the Indian Medical Corps at the Battle of Monte Cassino and that his preceding ancestors had a long-standing connection with the Indian Army.