Angela Morant


Angela Morant is an English actress best known for playing Octavia Minor in the 1976 BBC television adaptation of I, Claudius, and Barbara Harrison in the soap opera Brookside.

Career

Other TV credits include A.D., Dixon of Dock Green, Callan, Inspector Morse, Bergerac and The Bill. She was also featured in the Lord Peter Wimsey series Have His Carcase.
Her film roles include the lead in the 1979 film Victims.

Personal life

Morant attended Chipping Campden Grammar School.
She was the first wife of actor Ben Kingsley. They had two children.
From a theatrical family, her parents Philip and Pearl, siblings Richard and Jane, cousins Susan Travers, Penelope Wilton, aunt Linden and uncle Bill Travers were also actors.