Biography
Profile

Career History
Early Days
1953-1970

Theatre, Television, Film & Radio
(1972-1976)

(1976-1979)

(1980-1984)

(1985-1990)

(1991-1994)

(1996-1998)

(1999 -2003)

(2004 -2008)

Other Achievements:-
Books, Awards
 

Biography: Career History: Early Days 1953-1970

Anita began her career in 1953, at the age of  4 when she performed with a juvenile group, singing, appropriately, "They tried to tell us we're too young"

1954 she joined the Ivy Travers dance troupe which performed at the York Hall Swimming Baths in Old Ford Road.

At about the same time, Anita played the title role in the John Scurr Primary School Production of "Alice in Wonderland"

Whilst on a family holiday, at Warners Holiday Camp, on the Isle of Wight, Anita enrolled as a 'Warner's Wagtail' and sang a song in the talent contest, which - much to her parents' delight - she won.

1960: By the age of 11, Anita was attending Saturday morning drama classes at Toynbee Hall, Commercial Street, East London. It was here that she had her first taste of 'proper' acting, playing such parts as 'Cecil' in "The Queen and Mr Shakespeare". Also appeared that same year as 'Portia' in the Coborn Grammar School production of "The Merchant of Venice".

1968:  Enrolled with the Bertha Myers Company - an amateur company supported by the Inner London Education Authority - and in August the company went on tour to Czechoslovakia where they presented, largely in the form of mime, a visual picture of London. During her time with the company, Antia played in the chorus of Euripedes' Alcestis, in N.F. Simpson's surreal comedy. "A Resounding Tinkle" and in Oi! - a play with music about the East End which they wrote themselves.

1970: After auditioning for virtually every drama school in London, Anita was accepted by The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in South Kensington.

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