# Sarah Badel

Sarah M. Badel (born 30 March 1943) is a retired British stage and film actress. She is the daughter of actors Alan Badel and Yvonne Owen.

## Life and career

Badel was born in London to actor Alan Badel and actress Yvonne Owen. She was educated in Poles Convent, Hertfordshire and trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; she is now an Associate Member.
Sarah Badel made her acting debut in January 1963 in the Bristol Old Vic company's production of Hamlet, which was then touring India. Her first appearance in London theatre came in October 1964 in the part of Bella Hedley in Robert and Elizabeth at the Lyric Theatre. Badel made her Broadway theatre debut the following October playing Helen in The Right Honourable Gentleman at the Billy Rose Theatre.
In 1966, she performed at the Chichester Festival Theatre in such roles as Miss Fanny in The Clandestine Marriage and Anya in The Cherry Orchard. She returned to the Chichester Festival in 1967 and again in 1970. Other venues at which Badel has performed include the National Theatre Company and St George's Playhouse in Islington. She is also involved in many radio projects including adaptations of A Moon for the Misbegotten, Mourning Becomes Electra, and Lucia in London.
Badel made her first film appearance in the 1970 British comedy Every Home Should Have One. Other films in which she has appeared include The Shooting Party in 1985 and Not Without My Daughter in 1991. Badel made her first appearance on television in 1962 portraying Perdita in a television adaptation of The Winter's Tale.
She played Flora Poste in Cold Comfort Farm (1968) and Lizzie Eustace in The Pallisers (1974). In the 1980 BBC Television Shakespeare production of The Taming of the Shrew she played the lead female role of Katherine opposite John Cleese as Petruchio. Badel also had a role as Sister Madgalen (Avice of Thornbury) in two episodes of the TV series Cadfael (1994–1998). Other television appearances include She Fell Among Thieves, The Irish R.M., the 1996 adaptation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and Just Visiting in 2001. She played Patricia Bradshaw in The Black Book, a 2009 episode of Midsomer Murders.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1962 | The Winter's Tale | Perdita | TV film |
| 1962 | A Climate of Fear | Frances Waring | TV film |
| 1965 | Robert and Elizabeth | Bella Hedley | TV film |
| 1970 | Every Home Should Have One | Joanna Snow | |
| 1978 | Park People | | TV film |
| 1980 | The Taming of the Shrew | Katherina (Kate) Minola | TV film |
| 1984 | Out of Order | | TV film |
| 1984 | The Shooting Party | Ida Nettleby | |
| 1991 | Not Without My Daughter | Nicole | |
| 1994 | Pleasure | The Widow | TV film |
| 1995 | Heavy Weather | Lady Julia Fish | TV film |
| 1997 | Mrs Dalloway | Lady Rosseter | |
| 1999 | Cotton Mary | Mrs. Evans | |
| 2000 | Longitude | Society Lady | TV film |
| 2001 | Just Visiting | Queen | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1962 | Armchair Theatre | Veronica | Episode: "Thank You and Goodnight" |
| 1963 | ITV Play of the Week | Fay | Episode: "The Heart of the Country" |
| 1968 | Cold Comfort Farm | Flora Poste | Mini-series |
| 1968 | Mystery and Imagination | Elizabeth | Episode: "Frankenstein" |
| 1969 | W. Somerset Maugham | Louise | Episode: "Louise" |
| 1970 | Armchair Theatre | Sylvia Melville | Episode: "The Prime Minister's Daughter" |
| 1970 | BBC Play of the Month | Natasha | Episode: "The Three Sisters" |
| 1972 | The Visitors | Milly Purdoe | Mini-series |
| 1972 | Dead of Night | Lorna | Episode: "Bedtime" |
| 1973 | Conjugal Rights | Paula | Mini-series |
| 1973 | Between the Wars | Constance Lechdale | Episode: "Now Lies She There" |
| 1974 | The Pallisers | Lizzie Eustace | Mini-series |
| 1974 | Seven Faces of Woman | Liz West | Episode: "Let's Marry Liz" |
| 1974 | ITV Playhouse | Madge Wakely | Episode: "The Gift of Friendship" |
| 1975 | BBC Play of the Month | Goneril | Episode: "King Lear" |
| 1976 | Red Letter Day | Nicola | Episode: "The Five Pound Orange" |
| 1978 | BBC2 Play of the Week | Virginia | Episode: "She Fell Among Thieves" |
| 1978 | Do You Remember? | Peg | Episode: "Park People" |
| 1979 | Thomas & Sarah | Felicity Stokeleigh-Pomeroy | Episode: "The Biters Bit" |
| 1981 | Play for Today | Alice Dearth | Episode: "Dear Brutus" |
| 1981 | Play for Today | Alice Pike | Episode: "Bavarian Night" |
| 1983 | BBC Play of the Month | Olwen Peel | Episode: "Dangerous Corner" |
| 1983–1985 | Affairs of the Heart | Jane Bonamy | Series regular |
| 1985 | The Irish R.M. | Babs | Mini-series |
| 1985 | Summer Season | Natalaya Sergeyvena | Episode: "The House on Kirov Street" |
| 1987 | A Perfect Spy | Baroness Weber | 1 episode |
| 1988 | Small World | Hilary Swallow/Joy Simpson | Mini-series |
| 1990 | Haggard | Lady Tartlet | 2 episodes |
| 1991 | Fiddlers Three | Cynthia | Episode: "The Dark Horse" |
| 1992 | The Cloning of Joanna May | Angela | Mini-series |
| 1994 | Casualty | Celia Cooke | Episode: "Family Ties" |
| 1994 | Cadfael | Avice of Thornbury | Episode: "The Leper of St. Giles" |
| 1995 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Florence Hubbard | Episode: "Hickory Dickory Dock" |
| 1996 | The Vet | Mrs. Eaves | Episode: "Stormy Weather" |
| 1996 | Masterpiece | Julia Fish | Episode: "Heavy Weather" |
| 1996 | Cadfael | Sister Magdalen | Episode: "The Rose Rent" |
| 1996 | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Rachel | Mini-series |
| 1997 | Heartbeat | Susan Williamson | Episode: "Fool for Love" |
| 1997 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Lady Molly | Mini-series |
| 1998 | Midsomer Murders | Rosa Carmichael | Episode: "Death of a Hollow Man" |
| 2000 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Moira Wingrave | Episode: "Harm Done" |
| 2001 | Love in a Cold Climate | Lady Kroesig | Mini-series |
| 2001 | Hearts and Bones | Moira Thomas | 1 episode |
| 2001 | Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes | Mrs. Berkley | Episode: "The Photographer's Chair" |
| 2001 | Peak Practice | Sheila Spencer | 1 episode |
| 2005 | Fingersmith | Mrs. Frobisher | Mini-series |
| 2008 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Mrs. Brooks | 1 episode |
| 2009 | Midsomer Murders | Patricia Blackshaw | Episode: "The Black Book" |

### Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Notes |
| 1962 | Arms and the Man | Raina Petkoff | Bristol Old Vic, Bristol | India Tour |
| 1962 | Hamlet | Ophelia | Bristol Old Vic, Bristol | India Tour |
| 1963 | Heartbreak House | | Bristol Old Vic, Bristol | |
| 1963 | The Physicists | | Bristol Old Vic, Bristol | |
| 1963 | The Rivals | | Bristol Old Vic, Bristol | |
| 1964 | Robert and Elizabeth | Cousin Bella | Lyric Theatre, London | |
| 1966 | The Cherry Orchard | Anya Ranevskaya | Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester | |
| 1966 | The Clandestine Marriage | Fanny Sterling | Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester | |
| 1966 | The Fighting Cock | Sophie | Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester | |
| 1967 | The Italian Straw Hat | The Bride | Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester | |
| 1967 | Heartbreak House | Ellie Dunn | Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester | |
| 1969 | The School for Scandal | Lady Teazle | Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds | |
| 1970 | Arms and the Man | Raina Petkoff | Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester | |
| 1970 | Peer Gynt | Solveig | Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester | |
| 1970 | The Beaux' Stratagem | Mrs. Sullen | Royal Exchange, Manchester | |
| 1971 | Mrs. Warren's Profession | Vivie Warren | The Old Vic, London | |
| 1976 | Romeo and Juliet | Juliet | St. George's Theatre, London | |
| 1976 | Twelfth Night | Olivia | St. George's Theatre, London | |
| 1981 | The Cherry Orchard | Varya Ranevskaya | Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester | |
| 1989 | The Black Prince | Rachel Baffin | Aldwych Theatre, London | |
| 1991 | Tovarich | Madame Arbesziat | Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester | |
| 1993 | Quartermaine's Terms | Melanie Garth | Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford | |
| 1994 | The Seagull | Polina Andryevna | Theatre Royal, Bath | |
| 2002 | Cabaret | Fräulein Schneider | Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester | |