Kendal made her stage debut aged 9 months, when she was carried on stage as a changeling boy in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Later she started her career proper at the age of nineteen and starred in the Merchant Ivory film, Shakespeare Wallah (1965), loosely based on her family's real-life experience. At eighteen, Kendal returned to Britain against her father's wishes, where she found that her film Read more...

Felicity Ann Kendal, CBE (born 25 September 1946) is an English actress who is well known in the United Kingdom for her television work.

Born in 1946, Kendal spent much of her childhood in India, where her father managed a touring rep company. First appearing on stage aged 9 months, Kendal appeared in her first film, Shakespeare Wallah, in 1965. Returning to Britain that year, Kendal struggled Read more...

Kendal is 152 cm (5 ft) tall and has been married twice. Her first marriage was to Drewe Henley between 1968 and 1979 and the second was to Michael Rudman from 1983 to 1990. She converted to Judaism at the time of her second marriage. She has two sons; Charlie, from her marriage to Henley, and Jacob, from her marriage to Rudman. In 1991 the playwright Tom Stoppard left his second wife to start a Read more...