Angharad Rees

DOB: 1944-07-16

DOD: 2012-07-21

Angharad Rees was a London-born Welsh actress and, later, jewellery designer, 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". Her father was a prominent Welsh psychiatrist Linford Rees (William Linford Llewellyn Rees) and mother Catherine Thomas. When she was two, in 1946, her family returned to Wales to live into Cardiff. Rees studied at the Sorbonne in Paris for two terms and the Rose Bruford Drama College in Kent, England. She also studied at the University of Madrid and taught English in Spain before acting in repertory theatre in England. On 18 September 1973, Rees married the actor Christopher Cazenove. They had two sons: Linford James and Rhys William. Linford was killed in a car accident on the M11 motorway in Essex while driving to pick up books from Cambridge University, where he had been awarded the degree of Master of Philosophy. Cazenove and Rees divorced in 1994 but remained close. Cazenove died from the effects of septicaemia in 2010. Rees later married David McAlpine, a member of the McAlpine construction company, at The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. She remained married to McAlpine until her death. Rees founded a jewellery design company, Angharad, based in Knightsbridge, London, England.

Starred In

1981
Movie

Dear Brutus

1972
Movie

Under Milk Wood

2002
Movie

Dylan on Dylan

1974
Movie

Moments

1948
Movie

Pygmalion

1973
Movie

The Love Ban

1974
Movie

Joe's Ark

1971
Movie

Catch Me a Spy

1975
Movie

Awkward Customers

1973
Movie

Baffled!

1978
Movie

As You Like It

1971
Movie

Hell's Angel

1970
Movie

Jane Eyre

1971
Movie

Office Party

1974
Movie

Graceless Go I

1972
Tv

Crown Court

1975
Tv

Poldark

1973
Tv

Thriller

1972
Tv

Crown Court

1989
Tv

Close to Home

1961
Tv

The Avengers