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Linda Thorson (born Linda Robinson on 18 June 1947 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress, most famous for her work as Tara King in The Avengers.

Personal life

Born Linda Robinson in Toronto, Canadashe moved to Britain in 1965 to train to be a dancer. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on 1 July 1967. Her professional name is based upon her first married name, Mrs Barry Bergthorson.

She was married to the American news anchorman and producer Bill Boggs with whom she has a son named Trevor, but they divorced. She married production designer Gavin Mitchell on 20 November 2005.

Acting roles

Thorson is best known for her role as Tara King (succeeding Diana Rigg as Emma Peel) in the last season of the British TV adventure series, The Avengers, with the original star Patrick Macnee and directed by Raymond Austin. She was reunited with Macnee in a commercial for Laurent-Perrier champagne in the mid 1970s which led to the series reappearing as The New Avengers, although Thorson did not reprise her role.

Since then, she appeared in character roles in many TV series and films, including Thriller, Return of the Saint, The Greek Tycoon (1978), Sweet Liberty (1986), and Marblehead Manor (1987). She appeared from 1989 to 1992 in the daytime drama One Life to Live as Julia Medina. She also appeared in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation - 'The Chase' (1993) (playing a Cardassian starship captain - Gul Ocett) in the early 1990s.Throughout her career Thorson has returned to the stage, performing in over fifty dramatic and musical productions, including five appearances on Broadway.

Thorson also appeared in the theatre in 1971, starring alongside Michael Crawford and Anthony Valentine in the London West End hit show No Sex Please, We're British and later appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania at the Open Air Theatre, Regents Park, London.

In 2002, she portrayed a Supreme Court Justice in the movie Half Past Dead with Steven Seagal and Ja Rule.

Throughout 2006/7, Thorson played the villainous Rosemary King in the ITV series, Emmerdale, and most recently played Hesther Salomon in the UK tour of Equus which co-starred Simon Callow and Alfie Allen. In the summer of 2008, she appeared at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park with Millicent Martin, Topol, and Lisa O'Hare in the Lerner & Loewe musical, Gigi.

References

1. ^ a b "Full Biography: Linda Thorson". New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/70859/Linda-Thorson/biography. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
2. ^ a b c "Linda Thorson Biography (1947-)". Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/film/37/Linda-Thorson.html. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
3. ^ a b c d Lisanti, Tom; Paul, Louis (April 2002). Film fatales: women in espionage films and television, 1962-1973. McFarland & Company. pp. 287–289. ISBN 978-0786411948.
4. ^ a b Rogers, Dave (15 August 1989). The Complete Avengers: The Full Story of Britain's Smash Crime-Fighting Team!. Berlin: St. Martin's Griffin. p. 158. ISBN 978-0312031879.
5. ^ "Alumni: Linda Thorson". Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. http://www.rada.org/alumni/directory.aspx?id=5310&frm=y&sur=Thorson. Retrieved 6 July 2010. [dead link]
6. ^ Room, Adrian (1981). Naming names: stories of pseudonyms and name changes with a who's who. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 196. ISBN 978-0710009203.
7. ^ Behind the Scenes: The New Avengers
8. ^ "Interview with Linda Thorson". BBC. 26 September 2005. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/entertainment/films_and_tv/lindathorson.shtml. Retrieved 5 July 2010.