Anna Quayle

Anna Quayle (born 6 October 1936) is an English actress. Her father was the stage actor Douglas Quayle.Playbill Magazine , vol. 1, no. 23, June 3, 1963 - Miss Quayle's "Who's Who in the Cast" for Stop the World - I Want to Get Off

She has appeared on film, on stage, and on television. Her film appearances include Smashing Time (1967), a short but notable (not to say strange) scene that she shares with John Lennon in A Hard Day's Night (1964), the German expressionist sequence of Casino Royale (1967) and in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) as Baroness Bomburst.

She appeared on Broadway in the original production of Stop the World - I Want to Get Off opposite the late Anthony Newley. It is for this in 1963 that she won a Tony Award - for Best Supporting Musical Actress.

Quayle's other TV work includes the comedy drama Mapp and Lucia, the children's science fiction series The Georgian House and Grange Hill where she played the role of teacher, Mrs Monroe between 1990 to 1994. In 1973, she appeared as a regular panellist on the popular BBC2 panel game show What's My Line?

TV

• Grange Hill as Mrs. Monroe (85 episodes, 1990–1994)
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