Sara Coward

Sara Coward (30 January 1948 – 12 February 2017) was an English actress. She was best known as the voice of Caroline Sterling in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers.

 Early life 
Sara Coward was born in Eltham, in the south-east of London, England, on 30 January 1948. She had two elder brothers: John and David.

Coward attended a local girls' grammar school. She read English and drama at Bristol University.

 Career 
Coward won the Carleton Hobbs award at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in London, which lad to a six-month contract with the BBC drama department.

Coward joined the cast of the BBC Radio 4 radio soap opera The Archers in 1977, as the voice of Caroline Sterling (3 June 1955 – 10 July 2017). She left the seris in September 2016. She appeared in a scene, which was broadcast on 12 April 2012, when Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall made a cameo appearance. In January 2017, 40 days before her death, Coward had said that she wanted Caroline to survive. In the episode broadcast on 11 July 2017, it was revealed that Caroline had died suddenly but peacefully at the Sterlings' second home in Italy.

Coward was a trained and licensed acupuncturist.

 Personal life 
Coward once moved to France on a whim; returning a year later, she spoke fluent French. She had owned pet-rescue greyhounds.

 Charity work 
Coward volunteered for the Samaritans.

 Illness and death 
Coward was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013. She underwent a mastectomy, however, a lump was found in her neck afterwards and she was further diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2016.

Coward died at a hospice in Warwickshire on 12 February 2017. She was 69. Coward was survived by her mother and her brother, David.

Coward had launched SM:)E ("smile"), a campaign to encourage people to be friendly and kind to one another, during her last weeks.

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Category:1948 births
Category:2017 deaths
Category:Actors from London
Category:English radio actors
Category:English stage actors
Category:English television actors
Category:Cancer deaths in England
Category:Deaths from breast cancer