Barbara Ewing(I)

Moved to the UK in 1962 to train at RADA, where she won the Bancroft Gold Medal for best student, graduating in 1965.

[on deciding on her second career as a writer] I was lucky that I had a good career and was able to support myself and was in a couple of hits. Then when Glenda Jackson turned 50 she said she wasn't going to sit around and wait to be offered the part of someone's wife or mother, she was going to become an MP, I nearly fainted. I thought, I don't want that to happen to me either.