Chloë Annett

Chloë Annett
Born	Chloë Victoria Annett 25 July 1971
Years active	1990 - present
Spouse(s)	Alec McKinlay (20 November 2000 - present)

Chloë Victoria Annett (born 25 July 1971) is an English actress, best known for her role in series 7 and 8 of the British sitcom Red Dwarf.

Biography

Early life and family

Annett was born and brought up in East Finchley in London, where she attended Mountview Theatre School. Originally she was going to attend an art school but she went along with one of her friends who had an audition and got in. She reports that her parents were supportive of her career change and really encouraged her.

Her father is director Paul Annett, who has directed a large number of episodes of the British soap opera, EastEnders. Annett's father also directed some episodes of children's drama series Byker Grove, in some of which Annett appeared. Her brother, Jamie Annett, has also directed EastEnders. Her mother is actress and voice expert Margo Annett, author of An Actor's Guide to Auditions and Interviews, who works closely with Thelma Holt and the Cameron Mackintosh foundation. She is married to Alec McKinlay, the manager for the pop groups Oasis and Crowded House.

Television

Annett has spent time in America where she had a part in the 1992 TV miniseries Jewels. Back in Britain most of her roles were "bit parts", although she played the starring role of Holly Turner in Crime Traveller (1997) alongside Michael French, who played Jeff Slade. In the early 1990s she played the part of Stiffy Byng, and, in one episode, that of Gertrude Winkworth, in Granada's series Jeeves and Wooster, based on the novels of P.G. Wodehouse. She also played Angela Mortimer, the great-niece of Mrs Pumphrey and the love interest of Tristan Farnon, in one episode ("Hampered") of All Creatures Great and Small.

Annett remains best known for taking over the role as Kristine Kochanski in the seventh and eighth series of the British science fiction comedy television series Red Dwarf, a role which she reprised in the final part of the 2009 special, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth.

She won Best Actress at the April 2011 London Independent Film Festival.^[1][2]

Selected videography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Families	Mina Sandaval
1990	Inspector Wexford: An Unkindness of Ravens	Jane Gardner
1990	All Creatures Great and Small: Hampered	Angela Mortimer
1991	Doctor at the Top	Rebecca Stuart-Clark
1992	Spatz	Donna Edwards
1992	Jeeves and Wooster: Bertie Takes Gussie's Place at Deverill Hall	Gertrude Winkworth
1992	Covington Cross: The Persecution	Rachel
1992	Double X: The Name of the Game	Sarah Clutten
1992	Jewels (aka Danielle Steel's Jewels)	Isabelle
1993	Yamada ga machi ni yatte kita (aka How to Speak Japanese)	Mary Fitzgibbon
1994	Byker Grove	Janey
1996	Cadfael: The Devil's Novice	Rosanna
1997	Space Cadets: Vulcans vs. Klingons	Herself
1997	Crime Traveller	Holly Turner
1997	Red Dwarf VII	Kristine Kochanski
1998	Universe Challenge	Herself
1998	Can't Smeg Won't Smeg	Kristine Kochanski
1999	Red Dwarf VIII	Kristine Kochanski
2000	Kiss Me Kate	Sam	Episode: The Party
2000	Pasty Faces	Lena
2000	The Asylum	Rose
2002	Doctors	Joanna Hepworth	Episode: Stealing Booty
2004	Casualty	Lina Roles	Episode: Passions and Convictions
2004	Comedy Connections: Red Dwarf	Herself
2009	Red Dwarf: Back to Earth	Herself/Kristine Kochanski
2010	Leila	Leila
2012	Casualty	April Halliwell	Episode: Hero Syndrome

References

1. Red Dwarf Series I Just the Show. "Best Actress Award For Leila | News". Red Dwarf. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
2. "Chloë Annett wins LIFF Best Actress for Leila!". Metfilmproduction.co.uk. 28 April 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2012.

External links

• Chloë Annett at the Internet Movie Database.