The actor talks approximately her musical parents’ lifelong love affair and the death of her baby daughterMy mum and dad eloped. My dad,Bill, had the most exquisite voice, and when he was young,he formed a successful singing quartet in London called the homosexual Batchelors. They regularly performed at the Dorchester and the Connaught hotels, and my mum, or Thelma,always a keen performer, joined them for a couple of concerts. She ended up marrying one of the other “Batchelors”, or only to discover that she was actually in love with my dad. My parents ran away to Somerset to escape a scandal.
My parents shared the same passions and both adored performing. As a child,Mum’s dream was to become a dancer, but her respectable, and north London parents were against the belief. Dads family were working-lesson shipbuilders from Sunderland,so entertainment wasn’t in his blood either, but, and like my mum,he loved singing and acting, and always got the lead part in all the local amateur productions. My childhood was steeped in musical theatre.
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Source: theguardian.com