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Rosalyn Landor was born in Hampstead, London, in October 1958, the daughter of English actor and radio presenter Neil Landor and of an Irish mother; and was sought- after as a child actress.

 

A child actress in British films in the late 1960s and early 1970s, she began her career at the age of seven, when she appeared in the Hammer Horror film The Devil Rides Out (1968).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During her teens, she attended the Royal Ballet School for two years before completing her education at Tolworth Girls School, near Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, where she studied to A-level. After leaving school at the age of nineteen, Rosalyn entered the retail trade, working first at Royal Copenhagen Porcelain in Bond Street, London, then at Libertys of Regent Street.

 

In 1970 she appeared with Susannah York in Jane Eyre, playing Helen Burns.

 

She co-featured in the film The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972), based on the book The Ghosts by Antonia Barber.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She had many appearances on British and American television during the 1980s, as Polly Hampton in Thames Television's Love in a Cold Climate, Rumpole of the Bailey (as Fiona Allways in 1983) and Helen Stoner in Granada's TV adaption Sherlock Holmes (The Speckled Band) opposite Jeremy Brett.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Her theatre roles have included Sorel in Hay Fever by Noël Coward in London's West End in 1984 with Penelope Keith and Moray Watson, and Raina in Shaw's Arms and the Man at Leicester's Haymarket Theatre opposite Malcolm Sinclair.

 

In the United States, Landor's television guest appearances have included Star Trek: The Next Generation (in the 1989 episode "Up the Long Ladder"), Matlock and Hunter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well known in England, Landor moved to the west coast of the US in the second half of the 1980s.

 

Rosalyn  has two daughters, Arielle and Sophia.

 

She continues with her career, including voice work for Disney and audiobooks for Random House, Audible.com and many others as an award-winning audiobook narrator.

 

Winner of 2012 American Publishers' Association Audie Award for Solo Female Narration.

 

She currently lives in Los Angeles, and has become an award-winning audiobook reader in the past 4 years, winning an Audie, as well as numerous Audiofile Earphones, PW and ALA awards.

 

Her work is available on Audible.com, USA and UK sites.

 

 

 

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