Kirsten Hughes (actress)
Kirsten Hughes (born 1963) is a former British actress best known for playing cartoon strip heroine Jane in the 1987 film Jane and the Lost City.
Hughes is the daughter of a BP businessman and was raised in Fleet in Hampshire before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She first came to notice[citation needed] when she appeared as an air stewardess in an ad for British Airways in 1986. She played Elizabeth Robertson in an episode of the schools' series Starting Out alongside Joanna Lumley and Rebecca Lacey (1986). In 1987 she played cartoon strip heroine Jane in the film Jane and the Lost City. Hughes played Mary McKinnon in The Kitchen Toto (1987), Anna in At the Cafe Continental (1989), Trudy/Kate Hindley in Boon (1987-1991), Allison Mannering in the Channel 5 children’s television series (1997), and Cynthia Barton in Reversals (2003).[1]
From 1995 to 2011 she was the partner of Sir Benjamin Slade, and worked with him in making Maunsel House and neighbouring Woodlands Castle into a successful wedding venue. After a three-year affair, she later "ran off with the handyman".[2][3]
After breaking up with her new partner after a year, Hughes works as a weddings co-ordinator.[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ Hughes on the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Chalmers, Robert (27 April 2008). "Sir Benjamin Slade: 'I am going to be a mega, mega-star'". The Independent. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ 'Wanted: Baby-maker for eccentric toff, 70' - Daily Express 19 April 2017 pg 24
External links[]
- Kirsten Hughes at IMDb
- 'Actress dumps aristocrat lover who made her wealthy.. for his gardener' - Daily Record 11 April 2012
- 'Sir Ben freezes the family assets' - Daily Express 17 February 2013
- 1963 births
- English television actresses
- English film actresses
- Living people
- Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art