Annabel Leventon

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Annabel Leventon is an English actress known for her work on stage, television and in films. She was born Judith Annabel Leventon on 20 April 1942 in Hertfordshire, England.

Early life and education
Leventon studied English at the University of Oxford. While there, she appeared at the Oxford Playhouse and played Desdemona in the Oxford University Dramatic Society’s production of Othello. She also performed with the Fourbeats pop group and took part in Edinburgh Festival shows, as well as other OUDS productions. After earning her BA, she trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and began her professional stage career in Leicester.

Career highlights
In 1967 she travelled to America to join Tom O’Horgan’s La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York for seven months before returning to Britain. She was in the original London cast of Hair in 1968 at the Shaftesbury Theatre, also directed by O’Horgan, and later directed and performed the show in Paris. She also appeared in the original London production of The Rocky Horror Show.

Television and film
Leventon’s first TV appearance was in The White Rabbit (1967). Over the following decades she appeared in many long‑running series. Her film credits include Come Back Peter (1969), Le Mur de l’Atlantique (1970), Every Home Should Have One (1970), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Shock Treatment (1981), Real Life (1984), Defence of the Realm (1986), M. Butterfly (1993), Wimbledon (2004) and A Royal Night Out (2015).

Later theatre work and recognition
In 2013, Leventon played Constance, the Madwoman of the Flea Market, in the British premiere of Jerry Herman’s Dear World at the Charing Cross Theatre in London. In 2023 she appeared as Edith Tellmann in Bjørg Vik’s The Journey to Venice at the Finborough Theatre, London, and was nominated for an Offies award for Lead Performance in a Play.

Writing
Leventon is the author of The Real Rock Follies: The Great Girl Band Rip-Off of 1976, published in 2017.

Selected notes on TV
Her television career spans many roles across years, including appearances in Minder, Casualty, New Tricks, Lennon Naked and other series, reflecting a broad and sustained presence on British television.