Career
Her most prominent role was as Elizabeth in the 1970s science fiction television series The Tomorrow People. Elizabeth Adare was born in 1949 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, of African immigrant parents from Sierra Leone where she was brought up until 1957. Always wanting to follow family tradition of becoming a school teacher, she took up acting as a hobby before attending the Mountview Drama School.
She worked in repertory theatre in Glasgow and Coventry and also with the National and Young Vic Theatres.
Adare had many walk-on parts and other small roles in television before featuring in an episode of The Expert for the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1971. Most notably she appeared in the science-fiction stage play "Time Sneeze" and in the feature films Father, Dear Father (1973) and A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979).
In 1973, she landed the part of Elizabeth M"Bondo in the series The Tomorrow People which ran until 1979 and it is known as her most famous role. Adare also appeared in Within These Walls for London Weekend television as well as 11 episodes of Crossroads.
After The Tomorrow People series ended in 1979, Elizabeth hosted About Books for Thames television