Richenda Carey

{{Short description|British actress}}

{{Notability|Biography|date=March 2022}}

{{EngvarB|date=October 2017}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Richenda Carey

| image =

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| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|4|29|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Bitton, Gloucestershire, England

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1974–present

| spouse = {{plainlist|

  • {{marriage|Nigel Stock|1979|1986|end=died}}
  • John Foley

}}

}}

Richenda Carey (born 29 April 1948) is a British actress who is mostly known for her roles in Monarch of the Glen, Jeeves and Wooster, Darling Buds of May, Crush and more recently, Separate Lies and Criminal Justice.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137028/|access-date=18 October 2008|title=IMDB entry for Richenda Carey|website=IMDb}}

Carey was the third wife of actor Nigel Stock, whom she married in Bristol in 1979. After Stock's death in 1986, Carey married John Foley in 1999.{{cn|date=June 2023}}

From July 2009 she appeared in Calendar Girls at the Noël Coward Theatre.

Filmography

=Film and television=

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rowspan="1"|1974

| Upstairs, Downstairs

| Head Nurse

| Tug of War (series four, episode five)

rowspan="1"|1975

| Within These Walls

| Officer Budgen

| Let the People See (series two, episode nine)

rowspan="1"|1976

| Nuts in May

| Miss Beale

| aka Play for Today: Nuts in May

rowspan="1"|1982

| A Shocking Accident

| Susan

|

rowspan="1"|1982

| P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang

| Botany Teacher

|

rowspan="1"|1986

| Only Fools and Horses

| Lady at Opera

| A Royal Flush

rowspan="1"|1990

| Jeeves and Wooster

| Lady Wickhammersley

| The Purity of the Turf

rowspan="1"|1990

| Waiting for God

| Greta Mueller

| Fraulein Mueller (series one, episode five)

rowspan="2"|1991

| The Darling Buds of May

| Lady Bluff-Gore

| Series 1 (3 episodes)

Bodger & Badger

| Mrs Bogart

| Series 3 (7 episodes)

rowspan="3"|1994

| Late Flowering Lust

| Mrs Fairclough

|

Wycliffe

| Jane Rule

| The Tangled Web

Nostradamus

| Countess

|

rowspan="1"|1995

| The Choir

| Bridget Cavendish

|

rowspan="1"|1996

| The Prince and the Pauper

| Lady Milford

| television mini-series

rowspan="5"|1997

| Photographing Fairies

| Fierce Woman

|

Chalk

| Mary Langland

| New Student

Jane Eyre

| Lady Ingram

|

Kavanagh QC

| Pamela Erskine

| Blood Money

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| Lady Bradshaw

|

rowspan="3"|1998

| Mosley

| Lady Mosley

| Channel 4 mini-series

dinnerladies

| Lady Pamela

| Royals (series one, episode two)

Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde

| Sister Blister

| Astro-Nuts

rowspan="2"|1999

| Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

| Mary Blackcottage

|

Spaced

| Dog pound clerk

| Battles (series one, episode four)

2000

|Victoria Wood:With All The Trimmings

|Various Roles

|

rowspan="3"|2001

| Crush

| Lady Governor

|

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

| Imperious Woman

|

Hot Money

| Judge Lucinda Winchcombe

|

rowspan="1"|2002

| Vacuums

| Mrs Cartwright

| musical a.k.a. Stealing Bess (US title)

rowspan="3"|2003

| Monarch of the Glen

| Lady Dorothy Trumpington-Bonnet

| Series 5 (five episodes)

The Young Visiters

| Lady Gay Finchling

| television film version

Looking for Victoria

| Lady Wharncliffe

| television film

rowspan="1"|2004

| Midsomer Murders

| Margaret Hopkins

| The Straw Woman

rowspan="1"|2005

| Separate Lies

| Sarah Tufnell

|

rowspan="1"|2008

| Criminal Justice

| Judge Ira

|

rowspan="1"|2009

| Desperate Romantics

| Landlady

|

rowspan="1"|2010

| The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

| Mrs Priestley

|

2015

| Colonia Dignidad

| Gisela Seewald

|

2019

| Downton Abbey

| Mrs Webb

|

Radio and voice work

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rowspan="2"|2000

| Peril at End House

| Mildred Croft

| Hercule Poirot (radio series)

rowspan="2"|Clock Tower 3

| The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

| Mrs Terriss

| The Star of the Adelphi (Radio)

2002

| Dorothy Rand

| Survival horror game (Video game){{cite video game | developer=Capcom, Sunsoft | title=Clock Tower 3 | publisher=Capcom | scene=Ending credits, 7:09 in, CAST | year=2002}}

rowspan="1"|2005

| No Commitments

| Lady Dorothy Trumpington-Bonnet

| Hard Times (series eleven, episode four) (Radio)

rowspan="1"|2000

| Dogged Persistence

| Nettie

| Written by Martyn Wade and co-starring Joan Sims and Elizabeth Spriggs (BBC Radio 4, August 2000)

References

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