Katharine Schlesinger
Katharine Schlesinger, is a British actress niece of the film director John Schlesinger and great-niece of Dame Peggy Ashcroft. She starred as Catherine in the 1987 film adaptation of Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey". Theatre. In 1990 she listed her earlier provincial stage work as: Listed London work included: She made her National Theatre debut in 1988 as Grace Wellborn in Ben Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair" staged in the Olivier Theatre, followed in 1989 by her role as Jacinta in the Cottesloe revival of Lope de Vega's "Fuente Ovejuna". In November 1989, again at the National , she played the title role in Steven Berkoff's symbolist stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "Salomé", a production which transferred to the Phoenix Theatre in January 1990. "Katharine Schlesinger mimed the dance of the seven veils and, without having taken anything off, persuaded a hushed audience that she was standing there totally naked.": critic Robert Tanitch. In February 1991 at the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs, she took part in performances of selected plays in the Young Writers' Festival. Since then no further London stage credits for Katharine Schlesinger have been listed in the Theatre Record annual Indexes. Audio  work. Schlesinger's audio work includes William Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" and "Henry VIII". She also sang the period song "That's the Way to the Zoo" in her appearance in the "Doctor Who" serial "Ghost Light" (1989).