Anthea Askey
Anthea Shirley Askey was an English actress who was popular on television in the 1950s.
Anthea Askey was born in Golders Green, north London, to the comedian and actor Arthur Askey, and his wife Elizabeth May Swash. In many of her television roles she starred with him.
Her early television appearances included Love and Kisses, where she played Rose Brown, whose father Bill was played by her father; while other TV and films include The Love Match, Ramsbottom Rides Again, Before Your Very Eyes, Living It Up, The Dickie Henderson Half-Hour, Arthur's Treasured Volumes and a cameo appearance in Make Mine a Million in 1959.
In 1993 she starred in an episode of The Darling Buds of May.
Anthea Askey died in Worthing, Sussex, in 1999, aged 65.
