No. Just posh

@@mahler71 buzz kill. She is gorgeous, and her voice is so captivating - quite low, slightly husky, and athough it sounds very English, there are faint traces of Hindi in the rhythm and intonation of her speech that make it distinctive, and very compelling to listen to. She's very articulate, she doesn't struggle for words or ever sound banal. She was raised listening to, understanding and speaking the language of Shakespeare and Milton, and met all sorts of people as she travelled around India with her parents and the other actors in the company - an extraordinarily unusual and stimulating education. There are plenty of 'posh' people who dull, aloof and emotionally constipated - minor royals and so forth, who are obsessed with their own privilege - but Felicity Kendal is very free and, as she says of Schofield, relaxed, and naturally gracious. You don't get to have a decade that's stretched over five or maybe six decades without having some kind of charisma, and she has it in spades.

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@@mahler71 unqualified, immature comment, we all know plenty of so-called 'posh' people who are none of the above

Are you sure the show wasn't "Solo", where she played the character of Gemma? And yes, Felicity comes from the latin meaning "happiness"

It’s mentioned in the interview. Apparently it happened twice.

I may have uploaded Julie... Never taped Imelda... But I think I found Alison... watch this space... ;)

She won't admit it??But it's kind of obvious

Honestly its none of your business. I can't understand why people want to know if a person had had surgery or not. And if they have had surgery that its compulsory that they must admit it.

@@sandragailgoudelock1531 It is our business when these celebrities lie through their shiny, white caps, and tell us they exercise, drink plenty of water, and eat well to keep looking young.

Why? It's not anyone's business

She made a couple of sitcoms, including one dreadful one where she tried an american accent... But yes, I don't know what happened then.

Rosemary and Thyme

She did bbc series The Norman Conquest’s Solo then Mistress so many many plays in the west End. The films Valentino and Parting Shots then Strictly Dancing just very recently and musical with Robert Lyndsey she now 75

Not really disappeared, but went back to the Theatre full time.

What is also interesting is Tom Baker. He played the fourth Doctor for over a decade. When you look at his interviews, you realise that he never acted the role of Dr Who. He always played Tom Baker. Tom Baker has the same mannerisms and style of talking as Dr Who. His popularity may come about from the quality of the scripts (mostly edited by Robert Holmes and some written by the likes of Douglas Adams) and the fact that his personality was a good fit for the Doctor. Then there is Daniel Day Lewis who had formal acting training at the prestigious Old Vic Theater School. If you look at his interviews and look at his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln, you can see nothing of Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln. That is, he wasn't playing himself. He'd spent sometime studying and devising the character of Lincoln and then completely immersed himself in that character during filming. I wonder if Kendall, with no formal acting training, could achieve the same feat?

She grew up with a troupe of actors, hearing, understanding and speaking Shakespeare and Milton from an early age, and her father in particular had a passion for the spoken language, and the great stories of classical theatre. She had a very free upbringing, magical almost, and her imagination was constantly stimulated by the world around her. So she is very free and natural, her voice is wonderfully relaxed and unconstricted, and she's very at ease on stage or on camera. She's very comfortable with dense language, and has had particular success with comedies by modern playwrights such as Ayckbourn, Stoppard and Hare. There is something slightly mannered about her, at times, a kind of 'little me' mischievousness about her, that has proved to be very endearing and popular, if somewhat limiting to her range. She's not a tragedian like Judi Dench, or imperious like Maggie Smith, and she's not a firebrand like Vanessa Redgrave. But she does what she does very well, and she has had fruitful professional relationships with some of the best directors and writers of her era. A great deal of what a drama school does is enable performers to find their 'voice', in the widest sense, and be able to use it boyh freely and with discipline. She didn't really have to be taught that, it was the way she was brought. It's like gospel singers who don't so much learn how to sing, but are never taught not to, and therefore have a very natural access to their instrument.

@@wongawonga1000 she's not a method actor, and I don't think she would want to be. Her training was in an English repertory theatre that just happened to be constantly touring India, playing lots of different parts week in and week out. Daniel Day Lewis is a brilliant actor, and as you say, a complete chameleon in the way that he changes from role to role. The cost of that is that he doesn't do it very much, and as far as we know at this time, has retired to his farm in Ireland. I think the last time he was on stage was starring in a production of Hamlet at the National Theatre in London. He entered very deeply into the psychology of Hamlet's relationship with his deceased father, who appears in the first scene of the play as a ghost to tell his son that he was murdered by Claudius (who has since become Hamlet's step-father) and demands vengeance for the crime. Day Lewis's own father, who was a celebrated poet and great man of letters, had recently died, and the actor set about mining this loss for material to lend to his character, but he ended up having some sort of psychotic breakdown, and had to leave the production during previews. What might have worked brilliantly on film came at too great a cost to produce eight times a week over a three month run. As Laurence Olivier remarked, observing Dustin Hoffman's exhaustive preparation for his harrowing role as a victim of a Nazi war criminal turned dental surgeon, in their 1976 film, Marathon Man "dear boy, why not just do some acting?". There are things to be said for both approaches. Olivier greatly admired Brando - they are very different actors, but what they share is a intensity, physical presence, and great charisma. Some eminent critic once said that a great American actor will make you feel you've seen to the bottom of his or her character's soul; whereas a great British actor will you make you feel like you haven't - more is suggested than is specifically described. Think of the difference between Meryl Streep, say, and Maggie Smith. Both brilliant, but very very different in their approach.

O yes princess Vicky

Jennifer Kendal