Felicity Kendal

Where she plays a gardener Rosemary Boxer, who together with fellow friend and ex-policewoman Laura Thyme (Pam Ferris) solve a mystery near their work. She had a recurring role in the television series Twin Peaks. Her most recent work is the murder mystery, Rosemary and Thyme. She received another Supporting Actress nomination in 1987 for Children of a Lesser God. She starred in the first productions of many of his plays; in 1991 Stoppard left his wife to start a relationship with her. She appeared in the Australian film Tim opposite a very young Mel Gibson, but perhaps her most famous role in her later career was as the fanatically religious mother in Carrie, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her relationship with playwright Tom Stoppard was both personal and professional. Once again disenchanted with the work available, Laurie returned to semi-retirement to raise a family.

Kendal's stage career blossomed during the eighties and nineties. In 1961 she returned to Hollywood to star opposite Paul Newman in The Hustler, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Despite this, she maintained her popularity. Dissatisfied with the work she was being offered in Hollywood, Laurie went to New York City in 1955 to work on the live television programs of the 1950s, in such productions as Twelfth Night and Days of Wine and Roses. After series ended, she starred in several other BBC sitcoms, none of which came anywhere near the success of The Good Life. She signed a contract with Universal Studios when she was 17, co-starring with Ronald Reagan in Louisa. She was particularly popular with male viewers, and was voted "Rear of the Year" for her appearances wearing wellington boots. Born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Los Angeles, California when she was young.

On her return to Britain, she found that her film appearance was not a passport to success, and her struggle to build an acting career was long and difficult, partly because of her unusual upbringing. In 1975, she got her big break with the sitcom, The Good Life, which made her a household name. Piper Laurie (born January 22, 1932) is an American actress. Felicity made her stage debut in these productions, and at the age of nineteen, starred in the film, Shakespeare Wallah (1965), loosely based on her family's real-life experience. They performed Shakespeare to audiences consisting mostly of schoolchildren. She is the younger sister of the late Jennifer Kendal and the daughter of Geoffrey Kendal, an English actor who made his living leading a repertory company on tours of India after the Second World War.

Felicity Kendal is a British actress, born in Warwickshire on September 25, 1946.