# Sandra Payne (actress)

Sandra Payne (born 24 September 1944, Royston, Hertfordshire) is an English actress best known for her roles as Miss Mckenzie in Only Fools and Horses, Christine Harris in the British television series Triangle and as Marion Ballard in Waiting for God.

## Career

Payne attended Selhurst Grammar School and the Italia Conti Academy. She then acted in repertory theatre before appearing on television in the 1960s in the soap operas Compact, The Newcomers and Z-Cars. In 1978, she appeared as Phillipa in The Professionals episode "Blind Run". Payne appeared as a character called "Penny" in the 1979 Christmas special and final episode of George and Mildred.
She also appeared as Mrs. Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop, as Miss Taylor in The Wildcats of St Trinian's (1980), as Eryl Griffith in the 1985 television movie Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Moving Finger, as Mrs Micawber in David Copperfield (1986) and as Miss Mackenzie (Council Housing Officer) in the Only Fools and Horses episode "Homesick" (1983).

## Personal life

Payne was married to the American lyricist Alan Jay Lerner from 1974 to 1976. Payne was Lerner's sixth wife— he and Payne married in Port au Prince, Haiti, on 10 December 1974, one day after Lerner received a Haitian divorce from his fifth wife.
In 1979, Payne married English filmmaker Roy Boulting; they divorced in 1983. Boulting directed Payne in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Moving Finger in 1985.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1980 | The Wildcats of St. Trinian's | Miss Taylor | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1963 | The Plane Makers | Secretary | Episode: "Lover Come Back" |
| 1963–1964 | Compact | Wendy Millet | 26 episodes |
| 1964 | Gideon's Way | Alice Short | Episode: "The Big Fix" |
| 1964 | The Likely Lads | Sheila Mills | Episode: "Older Women Are More Experienced" |
| 1965 | Emergency Ward 10 | Marlene | Episode: #1.780 |
| 1965 | Sherlock Holmes | Violet Westbury | Episode: "The Bruce-Partington Plans" |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters | Sue Andrews | Episode: "Young Turk" |
| 1965 | Riviera Police | Ilia Dutton | Episode: "There Comes a Point" |
| 1964–1965 | ITV Play of the Week | Girl Nurse | 2 episodes |
| 1965–1969 | The Newcomers | Janet Langley | 257 episodes |
| 1971 | Scene | | Episode: "Clean Sweep" |
| 1972 | Man at the Top | Janet Adams Lady Hudson | 3 episodes |
| 1964–1972 | Z Cars | Jean Beryl | 3 episodes |
| 1972 | General Hospital | Doreen Richards | 2 episodes |
| 1974 | Miss Nightingate | Pearl Pringle | Television film |
| 1974 | Microbes and Men | Marie Semmelweis | Episode: "The Invisible Enemy" |
| 1978 | 1990 | Barbara Fairlie | 2 episodes |
| 1978 | Scorpion Tales | Karen Oldfield | Episode: "The Ghost in the Pale Blue Dress" |
| 1978 | The Sweeney | Meryl | Episode: "Latin Lady" |
| 1978 | The Professionals | Phillipa | Episode: "Blind Run" |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Miss Pulteney | Episode: "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" |
| 1979 | Atom Spies | Marianne Pontecorvo | Television film |
| 1979 | Shelley | Angie | Episode: "Gainfully Unemployed" |
| 1979 | George and Mildred | Penelope | Episode: "The Twenty-Six Year Itch" |
| 1979 | Collision Course | Ruth Penderson | Television film |
| 1979–1980 | The Old Curiosity Shop | Mrs. Quilp | 6 episodes |
| 1980 | All Creatures Great and Small | Marjorie Gillard | Episode: "Home and Away" |
| 1980 | Just Liz | Liz Parker | 6 episodes |
| 1982–1983 | Triangle | Christine Harris | 52 episodes |
| 1983 | Only Fools and Horses | Margaret MacKenzie | Episode: "Homesick" |
| 1985 | Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Moving Finger | Eryl Griffith | 2 episodes |
| 1986 | Never the Twain | Belinda | Episode: "In Whom We Tryst" |
| 1986 | David Copperfield | Mrs Micawber | 4 episodes |
| 1988 | Jack the Ripper | Mrs. Acland | 2 episodes |
| 1990–1994 | Waiting for God | Marion Ballard | 46 episodes |
| 1996 | Roger Roger | Pam | Television film |