Background
She grew up in Bath and trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
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Margot Boyd
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Here Boyd acted in a production supervised by George Bernard Shaw. After graduating from RADA, she gained work at the Leeds Theatre Royal Repertory Company, never seeming to play a leading role less than 55 years of age, she later commented. She later worked with Michael Redgrave at Stratford in 1953.
In 1956 she appeared in One Bright Day at the Apollo Theatre in London.
On television, Boyd starred in the lead of Our Mission Pemberton (1957) and had many guest appearances in series such as Dixon of Dock Green and Upstairs, Downstairs. In later years, she was best known for playing Marjorie Antrobus in The Archers radio serial on Radio 4 and Hilda Rumpole in The Splendours and Miseries of an Old Bailey Hack on the same station.
Her character was effectively written out in 2004. Boyd died at a home for retired actors, Denville Hall, in Northwood, Middlesex.
Membership
As a member of the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Drama Company in 1984, she was originally intended to make a one-off appearance in the serial, but became a regular member of the cast.
