Sara Kestelman
Birthday: Born in 1944-05-12 in London, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Midsomer Murders
Character: Bernie
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty. ...
Ultimate Force
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This covert combat series focuses on the Red Troop, an elite group of soldiers from the British military's Special Air Service group....
Bergerac
Character: Margaret Semple
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police....
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
Character: Mrs. Wilkins
Adaptation of the classic novel by Henry Fielding chronicling the life, loves and adventures of the charming Tom....
Relic Hunter
Character: Simone DeGuerre
Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the original owner. She is aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for the money....
The New Avengers
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The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners:...
Van der Valk
Character: Monika Hendricks
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972....
Trial & Retribution
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Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The 2008 series 10 had 10 episodes, the longest run of the drama so far. The latest series was number 12 which aired in February 2009....
Anna Karenina
Character: Countess Vronskaya
In 19th century Russia, aristocrat Anna Karenina has a passionate extramarital affair with the dashing Count Vronsky that could lead to both their ruin. A four-part British television adaptation of Tolstoy's novel....
Playhouse
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BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Among its many notable guest stars were Helen Mirren, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Liam Neeson, Paul Scofield, Deborah Kerr, Ben Kingsley, Donald Pleasence, Brenda Blethyn, and Peggy Ashcroft. It premiered in the UK on March 13, 1974 and ran through May 20, 1983....
The Chelsea Detective
Character: Celia Swanson
Detective Inspector Max Arnold lives on a battered houseboat at the end of Cheyne Walk after separating from his art dealer wife Astrid. The son of a local bookshop owner, Max is a far cry from the affluent elite whose crimes he'll help solve along with D.C. Priya Shamsie....
Invasion: Earth
Character: Grp. Capt. Susan Preston
Invasion: Earth is a BBC science fiction mini-series. It was made in collaboration with the Sci Fi Channel, and released in 1998 as six fifty minute episodes....
In the Flesh
Character: Connie Furness
Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found - but can the treated zombies be rehabilitated back into living society?...
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Hagar
Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre....
Screen Two
Character: Queenie Leavis
Series of single made-for-television dramas....
Inside No. 9
Character: Therapist
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'....
This Is Going to Hurt
Character: Winnicka
The unvarnished truth of life as a doctor working in obstetrics and gynaecology....
Movie Credits
The Hindenburg Disaster: Probable Cause
Character: Narrator
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Zardoz
Character: May
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements....
Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration
Character: Ruth
Jack Flea finds himself living with a woman nearly twice his age, who decides to make him her fantasy child. It is a role our young hero cannot resist....
Lisztomania
Character: Princess Carolyn
In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner....
Mind Games
Character: Dr. Davina Ward
A former nun turned criminal profiler is called in to investigate the horrific ritualistic murders of two middle aged women. Her unorthodox approach means that she has to deal not only with solving a murder but also winning the trust of her sceptical colleagues....
The Last Romantics
Character: Queenie Leavis
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University....
Cabaret
Character: Fräulein Schneider
Filmed live from the 1993 revival, Sam Mendes' directorial debut takes place at the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End. Jane Horrocks stars as cabaret girl Sally Bowles, Adam Godley as the bicurious Cliff, and Alan Cumming as the eccentric Emcee. Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally and the impish Emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside, a notorious political party grows into a brutal force....
Break of Day
Character: Alice
Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his country town, but he has misgivings after meeting her city friends....
The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
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On the day of her wedding, Leah is possessed by a dybbuk – the spirit of her former lover who died after learning of her engagement to another man. Set in the vanished, mystically religious world of 19th-century Eastern European Hasidism, S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk is a complex and meticulously crafted tragedy in which two lovers, betrothed before birth and denied earthly communion, are ultimately bound together for all eternity. This semi-staged reading took take place at the Almeida, as part of S...
The War That Never Ends
Character: Presenter (voice)
The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and others....
A Walk in the Forest
Character: Elisaveta Kutsov
A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident....
Mrs. Acland's Ghosts
Character: Mrs. Acland
Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life....
Brazen Hussies
Character: Madame Zarene
After meeting her old school friend Sandra Delaney, who now works as a stripper, pub owner Maureen Hardcastle decides to spice up her flagging business by turning it into a male stripper club, with the help of untrustworthy businessman Billy Bowman....
Ex Memoria
Character: Eva Lipszyc
A film about memory, loss and survival; Eva Lipszyc is a survivor, but she is now locked away in the twilight world of Alzheimer's disease. We see the world from her point of view, at her eye level, and we see how a chance encounter with a caring young nurse breaks through the barrier...
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
Character: Narrator (voice)
A documentary on the influential musician Scott Walker....
The Old Woman Who Hid Her Fear Under the Stairs
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A woman's unique method of coping with fear becomes a liability when someone else's attention unnerves her....
The Cafeteria
Character: Esther
An eccentric Jewish writer is drawn into the world of an apparantly delusional young woman and her invalid father...