Actress Angela Thorne, best known for starring in The Manor Born, played Marjory Frobisher in the BBC sitcom opposite Penelope Keith from 1979 to 1981.
Angela Thorne was born in Karachi, British India, in 1939. The daughter of an Indian Army doctor father, William Herbert Alfred Thorne, and a teacher mother, Sylvia, spent the first five years of her life in India.
Was Angela Thorne in the good life?
Thorne appeared in two episodes of Thames Television’s sitcom Get Some In! in 1976 as Mrs. Fairfax, and in one episode of the BBC sitcom The Good Life in 1977 as Lady Truscott, before appearing as Marjory Frobisher into the Manor Born between 1979 and 1981, her husband appeared in two of the later episodes.
Thorne, who is also the mother of actor Laurence Penry-Jones, was nominated for an Olivier Award for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in Anyone For Denis? when she turned her hand to the stage.
