| Name |
Polly Adams |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
English |
| Date of Birth |
27-August-1939 |
| Place of Birth |
Chichester, Sussex, England |
| Famous for |
Acting |
Polly Adams is an English actress best known for her work on the stage both in England and in the United States, and for her portrayal of Mrs. Brown on the television series Just William. She made her Broadway debut in the critically acclaimed 1975 revival of London Assurance as Grace Harkaway. For her portrayal she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. Her other Broadway credits include Zalmen or The Madness of God and Bedroom Farce.
Adams has also appeared in several productions on the London Stage appearing at such theatres as the Old Vic, the Oxford Stage Company, the Hampstead Theatre, the Royal National Theatre, the Greenwich Theatre, the Haymarket Theatre, the Lyric Hammersmith, the Globe Theatre, the Queen’s Theatre, the Piccadilly Theatre, the Savoy Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company among others. Her theatre credits include Ida in Americans, The Good Samaritan, Lady Lister in The Chiltern Hundreds with Bill Kenwright, Time and the Conways, A Month in the Country, Pygmalion, Tis Pity She’s a Whore, A Small Family Business, Tons of Money, Plunder, The Philanderer, Engaged, Troilus and Cressida and Don Juan Comes Home from the War, The Government Inspector, Benefactors, The Real Thing, Present Laughter, The Importance of Being Earnest, Hay Fever, The Merchant of Venice, Private Lives, The Complaisant Lover, and Relatively Speaking among several others.
Adams has also worked on television in the United Kingdom, appearing in programmes including The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Element of Doubt, Just William, A Dark Adapted Eye, The Cinder Path, Blisters, Inspector Alleyn, Bonjour la Classe, The Camomile Lawn, Sob Sisters, Executive Stress, The Murder at the Vicarage, Faint-Hearted Feminist, Winter Sunshine, Goodbye Darling, Tribute to the Lady, Loyalties, Upstairs, Downstairs, Only the Other Day, The First Churchills, The Spoils of Poynton, Pride and Prejudice, and Compact and Sea Song. Her film credits include Kisna and A Woman of the North.
