Anna Carteret (born 11 December 1942) is a British stage and screen actress.
Carteret was born as Annabelle S. Wilkinson[1] on 11 December 1942 in Bangalore, British India, the daughter of Peter John Wilkinson and his wife Patricia Carteret (Strahan). She was educated at Arts Educational Schools in Tring, Hertfordshire (now the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts), where she trained for the stage.
In 1974, she married the television and film director Christopher Morahan[1] They were together for over forty years and often worked together. The couple had two daughters, theatre director Rebecca[2] and actress Hattie Morahan.[3] In June 2019, Carteret spoke about living with bipolar disorder since she was a teenager.[4]
Carteret's extensive life in the theatre from 1964 to 2015 is catalogued in the British online database Theatricalia.[5]
Carteret is best known for her role as police inspector Kate Longton in the BBC's long-running 1980s television series Juliet Bravo.
Other television credits include The Saint, The Pallisers, Frederic Raphael's The Glittering Prizes, Eskimo Day, Star Maidens, Peak Practice, Holby City, and Casualty. In 1990, she was a contestant on Cluedo, facing off against John Stalker.
Films since 1959 include Dateline Diamonds (1965), The Plank (1967) and Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005). In 2012, she appeared in Private Peaceful. She portrayed Vivanti in Cats and Monkeys, co-starring with Jack Shepherd in a radio version of Catherine Shepherd's stage play, for BBC Radio 4's The Afternoon Play last broadcast on 19 November 2007.
Carteret has also voiced Miriam in the Welsh Christian animated television series Testament: The Bible in Animation and every female character in the British children's television series Forget Me Not Farm (Following the death of Mike Amatt (1949 - 2021, aged 71) who played Scarecrow, she is now the last surviving cast member of the show). Both of these shows aired on the BBC in the UK but only Testament aired on S4C in Wales.