Elizabeth Adare

Elizabeth Adare (born 3 June 1949 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland) is a currently practising child psychologist but is better known as an English actress and television presenter during the 1970s and 1980s.

Her most prominent role was as Elizabeth in the 1970s science fiction television series The Tomorrow People. Other TV credits include: Mind Your Language ("An Inspector Calls"), Crossroads, Within These Walls, Rising Damp, Angels, Father Dear Father, The Expert, Enemy at the Door, The Setbacks and Rumpole of the Bailey.

Elizabeth Adare was born in 1949 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, of African immigrant parents from Sierra Leone where she was brought up until 1957. Always wanting to follow family tradition of becoming a school teacher, she took up acting as a hobby before attending the Mountview Drama School. She worked in repertory theatre in Glasgow and Coventry and also with the National and Young Vic Theatres.

Adare had many walk-on parts and other small roles in television before featuring in an episode of The Expert for the BBC in 1971. Most notably she appeared in the science-fiction stage play "Time Sneeze" and in the feature films Father, Dear Father (1973) and A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979).

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