Laura Hartong

{{Short description|British actress}}

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Laura Lynn Hartong (born 23 August 1958) is a British former television actress best known for playing Charlotte Onedin in four series of The Onedin Line[http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=85970 Hartong in The Onedin Line on aveleyman.com] created by Cyril Abraham.

Born in Windsor, in the 1970s Hartong attended the Elmhurst Ballet School in Camberley in Surrey, where a contemporary was the actress Hetty Baynes.

Laura Hartong made her first television appearance as Naomi in six episodes of The Growing Summer (1968), and played Princess Yasmin in the episode 'The Princess and the Potion' in Jackanory Playhouse (1972). However, she is best known for playing Charlotte Onedin, the daughter of Anne and James Onedin, in 33 episodes of the popular BBC drama The Onedin Line (1977-1980).[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0367194/ Hartong] on the Internet Movie Database In 1989 she married John Alley;[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=Laura+lynn+&gsln=Hartong&msbdy=1958&cpxt=1&catBucket=rstp&uidh=rc8&cp=11&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=2803306&db=ONSmarriage1984&indiv=1&ml_rpos=3 Laura Hartong in the England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916-2005] - Ancestry.com - pay to view the marriage was later dissolved. In 2001 she married marketing executive Guy Andrew Coite Tarring (born 1953).[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=Laura+lynn+&gsln=Hartong&msbdy=1958&cpxt=1&catBucket=rstp&uidh=rc8&cp=11&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=13952189&db=ONSmarriage1984&indiv=1&ml_rpos=2 Laura Hartong in the England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916-2005] - Ancestry.com - pay to view This marriage was also later dissolved.

After leaving acting Hartong went into marketing, and today she is Field Marketing Manager at Seagate Technology in Slough.[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/laura-hartong/2/604/399 Hartong's Profile] on LinkedIn[https://web.archive.org/web/20150402190530/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba6363129 Hartong] on the British Film Institute website She is a Trustee of the British Ballet Organization, the dance examination board.[http://www.bbo.org.uk/about-us/our-people.php Hartong] at the British Ballet Organization website