Michelle Newell(I)
- Actress
Michelle Newell was born on June 18 1951. She made her television debut
in 1972. Four years later she played the ill-fated Mary Seaton in
When the Boat Comes In (1976)
and in 1983 played Cleopatra, the queen of the Nile, in the BBC series
The Cleopatras (1983). She was
also the rape victim daughter in
Dennis Potter's
Brimstone and Treacle (1976),
which, although filmed for television in 1976, was not screened until
eleven years later. In addition to her stage work, she has written a
novel 'Still Falls the Rain' and is married to visual effects designer
and artist John Clive (b. London 1953) by whom she has a daughter
Florence.
