About Angharad Rees
Angharad Rees (16 July 1944 – 21 July 2012) was a Welsh actress, best known for her British television roles during the 1970s and in particular her leading role as Demelza in the 1970s BBC TV costume drama Poldark. == Early life == Rees was born to Welsh psychiatrist William Linford Rees and his wife Catherine Thomas. When she was two, in 1946, her family moved from 13 Engel Park, Mill Hill, to Cardiff. Rees had two brothers and a sister. She attended the independent Commonweal Lodge School, then the Sorbonne in Paris for two terms and the Rose Bruford Drama College in Kent. She also studied at the University of Madrid and taught English in Spain before acting in repertory theatre in England. Throughout her professional life her birth year was given as 1949, but she was born in 1944. == Acting career == Rees made her television debut as a parlour maid in 1968 in an adaptation of Shaw's Man and Superman, appearing alongside Eric Porter and Maggie Smith. Other appearances in various television dramas and comedy series quickly followed, including The Way We Live Now, The Avengers, The Wednesday Play, Doctor in the House, Crown Court and Within These Walls. Her most notable early roles included the daughter of Winston Churchill (played by Richard Burton) in The Gathering Storm, Lucy in Dennis Potter's television play Joe's Ark (both 1974), and as Celia in As You Like It opposite Helen Mirren (1978).
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