Karen Meagher

 

Karen Meagher

  • Overview
  • Info & links
  • Images
  • Comments

Visa denna sida på svenska på Film.nu

Karen Meagher is an English actress, sometimes credited as Karen Meacher. Her first acting role was playing a skivvy in the 1979 television series The Mallens. This was followed by role playing teacher Miss Broom in the BBC's '80s children's programme Johnny Briggs. She also played Lou Beale in the EastEnders special Civvy Street, a spin-off that was filmed in 1988 but set in 1942. Meagher is perhaps best known in Britain for the role of Ruth Beckett in the 1984 BBC nuclear war drama Threads. At the time she was a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and was passionately committed to making a statement about the dangers of nuclear war in the United Kingdom. She also later appeared in a film outlining the risks attached to nuclear power; Chernobyl: The Final Warning

Read more about Karen Meagher
 
 

Lists & News

TMDb Filmanic is using The Movie Database API (TMDb) for certain functions, but is in no way supported or certified by TMDb.

Is this page about you? The information we have obtained is in whole or in part from The Movie Database (TMDb). You may request that we remove all personal information we have stored about you by sending us an email and include the URL of this page. Explain who you are, so we know you are the person this page is about. To delete your data from TMDb, you must contact them separately.

Karen Meagher

Images of Karen Meagher

Click to enlarge images

Your opinion about Karen Meagher?

Start a discussion about Karen Meagher with your friends on Facebook or Twitter!

Karen Meagher

Bio provided by Wikipedia External link to the source of this bio

Karen Meagher is an English actress, sometimes credited as Karen Meacher.

Her first acting role was playing a skivvy in the 1979 television series The Mallens. This was followed by role playing teacher Miss Broom in the BBC's '80s children's programme Johnny Briggs.

She also played Lou Beale in the EastEnders special Civvy Street, a spin-off that was filmed in 1988 but set in 1942.

Meagher is perhaps best known in Britain for the role of Ruth Beckett in the 1984 BBC nuclear war drama Threads. At the time she was a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and was passionately committed to making a statement about the dangers of nuclear war in the United Kingdom. She also later appeared in a film outlining the risks attached to nuclear power; Chernobyl: The Final Warning.

Since then she has had many television and film roles including playing Inspector Murchison in Heartbeat, Grace Poole in a recent adaption of Wide Sargasso Sea, as well as smaller roles in Dalziel and Pascoe, Carrie's War, Down to Earth, Doctors, The Bill and Bad Girls.

Content from Wikipedia provided under the terms of Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

×
×
×
×
×