about me
THE ACTOR
Anthea was born and brought up in South Wales, where she was encouraged by her father, a regular on the amateur circuit, to take in the theatre. Consequently, Anthea developed a love for acting at the age of just 8, when she appeared as the fairy godmother in a spoof version of Cinderella. Fascinated with accents and quirky characters, she often entertained her family with impersonations of Peggy from Hi De Hi and Mrs Overall from the famous Acorn Antiques. Upon leaving Wales in 1998 she worked both at home and abroad in education, youth theatre and the leisure industry. She finally took the plunge in 2005 & set off to London to pursue her life long dream of becoming a professional actor where she trained with The London Centre for Theatre Studies aka The Actor’s Company. Since graduating she has worked as a presenter and voice over artist as well as acting on the west end stage and in film for BBC Wales. Once likened to Rita Haywood, Anthea is an amazingly versatile actress & a great character actor with a rare gift for doing incredibly convincing accents. She also has a beautifully strong sopranno singing voice.
THE VOICE OVER ARTIST
Vocally trained by the brilliant Margaret Braun (vocal coach to Margaret Thatcher) and mentored by the late Bernard Shaw and Tony the Tiger himself: Tom Clarke Hill, Anthea is launching herself now for the very first time as The voice of many colours. Anthea’s is a bright, colourful, friendly, yet soothing voice with a hint of warm welsh tones. Clear and articulate and very versatile with an amazing array of accents and characters, click on the link to hear for yourself! (Recorded at Factory Transmedia Studios, Manchester. Produced by Alastair Saunders)
THE TEACHER
Anthea originally trained as a secondary school Drama and English teacher. She qualified in 1998 graduating from the University of Wales Institute Cardiff with an honours degree in arts and education. She has worked extensively in her capacity as a teacher over the past 13 years teaching children as young as 4 right up to 18+ adults. Having worked mostly in that time as a drama teacher, youth theatre director or acting coach, she has worked with a variety of abilities from both sexes and has had the privilege to tutor the likes of Rachel Mackley (ITV Anglia’s weather girl) and direct Amy Strange (Casualty and Law and Order UK). Anthea has vast experience in teaching a wide range of subjects such as Maths, English, Science, Humanities, PE, French and of course Drama having worked in Primary, Secondary, Special and Higher Education. She ran her own drama department back in 2001 and worked as a Youth Theatre Director for several years. She also has qualifications in basic counselling skills. Anthea believes in supporting young people to achieve their full potential so that they feel nurtured yet confident and self assured. Children are the future so safeguarding their well being and development is a strong passion of Anthea’s.
