Barbara Kellerman

Barbara Rose Kellermann (born 30 December 1949), known professionally as Barbara Kellerman, is an English film and television actress.

Early life and family

Kellerman was born in Manchester on 30 December 1949 to a German-Jewish father and a French mother. Her mother, Marcelle Kellermann, was a writer, language teacher and member of the French Resistance. One of three siblings, Kellerman trained at Rose Bruford College. She was previously married to Robin Scobey.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Kellerman's film credits include: Satan's Slave, The Monster Club and The Sea Wolves. Her television appearances include: Space: 1999, The Glittering Prizes, 1990, The Mad Death, Quatermass and The Chronicles of Narnia.

Kellerman has appeared in two of British television's hardest-hitting police dramas of the 1970s: Special Branch and The Professionals. In Special Branch she appeared as Michelle, a flashback character who was a member of the French Resistance in the episode episode Rendezvous (1973). Whilst in The Professionals she played Sylvie, the girlfriend of a former police officer who also has a relationship with a renegade former member of an organised crime network in the episode Runner (1979).

She is also known for her appearances in the BBC adaptations of three of the Narnia books, most notably as the tyrannical White Witch in The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (1988). A year later she had a minor role as the Old Hag (Narnian Hag) in Prince Caspian in (1989), and finally as the evil Lady of the Green Kirtle in The Silver Chair in 1990. On the radio, she portrayed Modesty Blaise in a 1978 BBC World Service adaptation of the novel Last Day in Limbo.

She made a 20-minute drama for With Light Productions in 2007 for director Anita Parry entitled The Lights of Santa Cruz. It co-starred Christian Rodska and was the story of two middle-aged divorcees doing up a boat on the Somerset coast. It was filmed in Watchet, Somerset (a small shipping port on the south-west coast of England) over a four-day period, mostly on a refitted Swedish fishing boat, the Josefine. The film was entered into Bristol's Brief Encounters Festival and is now on YouTube.

Filmography

References

External links

• Barbara Kellerman at IMDb