British actor Angela Barlow has had an extensive career in theatre, television, radio and voiceovers.
Trained at LAMDA, she has appeared in a huge variety of stage plays – classical, modern and experimental – with theatre companies all over the British Isles. In addition she has been seen on film and in numerous television dramas.
Besides her voiceover work, which covers television documentaries, natural history programmes, commercials, and campaigning films, she can also be heard on BBC radio.
Angela frequently appears at Jane Austen events, either in her own presentations or supporting author Maggie Lane in hers.
Read about Angela’s solo talks JANE AUSTEN’S ACTORS, JANE AUSTEN & CHARACTER: AN ACTOR’S VIEW, and JANE AUSTEN AND THE IMPORTANCE OF AUNTS here
Angela has also written two highly successful one-woman plays for herself: Reader, I Married Him (about Charlotte Brontë) and After Chekhov (about Chekhov’s actress wife, Olga).
Her mini-biography The Dancing Career of Nalda Murilova, can be read online at naldamurilova.wordpress.com This is an illustrated, exclusive account of the years in the 1920s when Angela’s ballet teacher, Madame Murilova, danced with the Pavlova, Diaghilev, and Stroganoff Ballets.
To enquire about Angela’s voiceover work and her talks, Jane Austen and the Importance of Aunts, Jane Austen’s Actors and Jane Austen and Character: An Actor’s View, please contact her here.
Forthcoming performances
Angela is currently researching and writing articles and a new talk.
Please contact her here to ask about a performance or reading for your group or venue.
Recent performances
2019
JANE AUSTEN’S ACTORS
Sarah Siddons, Edmund Kean – and Henry Crawford
Sunday December 29th | Jane Austen Society of North America
San Diego Branch |
2018
JANE AUSTEN AND THE IMPORTANCE OF AUNTS
Saturday August 18th | Jane Austen Society, Scottish Branch Edinburgh |
Friday September 21st | Jane Austen Festival, Bath |
Saturday January 27th | Jane Austen Society SW Branch Exeter |
2017
Maggie Lane with Angela Barlow:
JANE AUSTEN, WRITING TO THE END
Sunday 24th September |
Jane Austen Society Annual Conference Bath University |
JANE AUSTEN’S ACTORS
Sarah Siddons, Edmund Kean – and Henry Crawford
Saturday 23rd September |
Jane Austen Society Annual Conference Bath University |
JANE AUSTEN AND THE IMPORTANCE OF AUNTS
Wednesday 21st June |
Jane Austen Regency Week Alton |
Maggie Lane with Angela Barlow:
JANE AUSTEN, WRITING TO THE END
Sunday 2nd April |
Jane Austen Society, Bath & Bristol Group Bath |
JANE AUSTEN’S ACTORS
Sarah Siddons, Edmund Kean – and Henry Crawford
Saturday 1st April |
Jane Austen Society, London Branch London |
Maggie Lane with Angela Barlow:
I MUST LEAVE OFF BEING YOUNG: JANE AUSTEN IN 1816
Saturday 11th February |
Austen Study Day, University of London |