Lorna Lewis (actress)
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Lorna Lewis (1940–2013),{{Cite web |title=Lewis, Lorna, 1940–2013 |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?filters%5BnamePart_mtxt_s%5D%5B%5D=Lewis%2C+Lorna%2C+1940-2013&keywords=&layout=false |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=The New York Public Library Digital Collections}} also known as Lorna Christina Cleveland, was a British-American television actress who also appeared on Broadway. She remains best known for her role as Pet Simpson in the BBC television drama Survivors between 1976 and 1977.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/radiotimesguidet0000unse_x2l5/page/324/mode/2up?q=%22lorna+lewis%22+%22pet+simpson%22 |title=Radio Times guide to science fiction |date=2001 |publisher=BBC Worldwide |isbn=9780563534600 |pages=321,324}}{{Cite news |date=31 March 1976 |title=TV and radio |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/coventry-evening-telegraph-tv-and-radio/161623913/ |access-date=2024-12-27 |work=Coventry Evening Telegraph |via=Newspapers.com}}
Early life and education
Lewis was born in Surrey in England in 1940.{{Cite news |last=Wahls |first=Robert |date=October 20, 1963 |title=Footlight: One-Girl Show |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-footlight-one-girl-show/161625927/ |access-date=2024-12-27 |work=Daily News |location=New York |via=Newspapers.com}} During the Second World War, she was evacuated to her grandmother's farm in County Leix, Ireland, where she later spent many holidays. For a period, she was educated at Ryton Hall in Shropshire, England.
Her father, E. W. B. Lewis, was with the Royal Air Force and later worked in finance at Westinghouse International. In 1949, her family moved to Forest Hills, Queens, where she attended high school, and trained at a teachers' college in New Paltz, New York.
She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.{{Cite news |title=Lead in Play |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-keyport-weekly-lead-in-play/161625360/ |access-date=2024-12-27 |work=The Keyport Weekly |via=Newspapers.com}}
Career
In 1963, Lewis appeared on Broadway opposite Albert Finney in Luther by John Osborne.
In addition to Survivors, er other television work includes: The Wild Wild West, Doomwatch, Mixed Blessings and Maelstrom. She appeared in an episode of Adam-12.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
She retired from acting in the late 1980s and entered the priesthood, having been ordained as a Deacon Curate in 2003 in the parish of Wye in Kent, England.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} She resigned from the post in 2013.{{Cite news |date=18 December 2010 |title=Appointments in the Clergy |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-appointments-in-the/161624990/ |access-date=2024-12-27 |work=The Daily Telegraph |via=Newspapers.com}}
Filmography
- Overlord (1975)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0507483|name=Lorna Lewis}}
- [http://www.survivorstvseries.com/lorna.htm Career profile on Survivors site]
- [http://www.wyeweb.org/?p=21276 Obituary on the Wyeweb site]
- [https://www.facebook.com/SurvivorsNewsletter?hc_location=stream "Survivors" newsletter]
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