Sally Knyvette
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Sally Knyvette | |
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| Born | Sally James 9 February 1951 Horsham, West Sussex, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Known for | Blake's 7 (1978–1979) Emmerdale (1988–1991) |
Sally Knyvette (born 9 February 1951) is a British actress, theatre director and drama teacher.
Early life[]
Born Sally James in Horsham, West Sussex, the daughter of a doctor, Knyvette lived in France and then Switzerland for nearly twelve years. She returned to London with two French friends, and they started a successful restaurant in Chelsea.[1]
Acting career[]
In Chelsea an actress friend, Tilly Tremayne, encouraged Knyvette to take acting lessons from Beryl Cook, which she did for two years. Her first work was in a children's theatre company, working in schools. She then acted in repertory theatre for seven years, mostly on stage, including playing Shakespeare roles.[1]
TV Career[]
On screen Knyvette is best known for her roles as Jenna Stannis in the first two seasons of the British science fiction series Blake's 7,[2] Kate Sugden in the soap opera Emmerdale, and Nurse Rowland in the medical soap series General Hospital. She later complained of her Blake's 7 role that Jenna had "started off as this really exciting, intergalactic space pirate, but then she became a sort of housewife on the Liberator".[3]
Other television appearances include: Holby City, The Safe House , Family Affairs, A Touch of Frost, Unfinished Business, Casualty , Eastenders, Dalziel and Pascoe, Coronation Street, The Politician's Wife, The Bill, Big Deal , Who Pays the Ferryman?, General Hospital and Z Cars.
She also voiced the part of Doctorman Allan in the Doctor Who audio adventure Spare Parts and that of Carmilla in the video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and its sequel, developed by Mercury Steam. She voiced Emiliana Perfetti in the video game Layton's Mystery Journey developed by Level-5.
After leaving Blake's 7 Knyvette studied for an English and drama degree at the University of London. She lives in Fulham, west London.
Notes[]
- ^ a b Alan Stevens, Jenna Stannis: The Teleport Queen, interview with Sally Knyvette at kaldorcity.com, accessed 29 November 2013
- ^ David Lavery, The Essential Cult TV Reader (2010), p. 53
- ^ Jonathan Bignell, Andrew O'Day, Terry Nation (2004), p. 172
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