Sandra Payne (actress)

Sandra Payne (born 24 September 1944, Royston, Hertfordshire) is an English actress best known for her roles as Miss Mckenzie in Only Fools and Horses Christine Harris in the British television series Triangle and as Marion Ballard in Waiting for God.

Not to be confused with Sandra Payne (artist).
Sandra Payne
Born
Sandra Payne

(1944-09-24) 24 September 1944
Royston, Hertfordshire, England
Alma materItalia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts
OccupationActress
Years active1963–1996
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    (m. 1979; div. 1983)​

    Career

    Payne attended Selhurst Grammar School and the Italia Conti Academy. She then acted in repertory theatre before appearing on television in the 1960s in the soap operas Compact, The Newcomers and Z-Cars. In 1978, she appeared as Phillipa in The Professionals episode "Blind Run". Payne appeared as a character called "Penny" in the 1979 Christmas special and final episode of George and Mildred.

    She also appeared as Mrs. Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop, as Miss Taylor in The Wildcats of St Trinian's (1980), as Eryl Griffith in the 1985 television movie Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Moving Finger, as Mrs Micawber in David Copperfield (1986) and as Miss Mackenzie (Council Housing Officer) in the Only Fools and Horses episode "Homesick" (1983).

    Personal life

    Payne was married to the American lyricist Alan Jay Lerner from 1974 to 1976. Payne was Lerner's sixth wife— he and Payne married in Port au Prince, Haiti, on 10 December 1974, one day after Lerner received a Haitian divorce from his fifth wife.[1]

    In 1979, Payne married English filmmaker Roy Boulting; they divorced in 1983.[2] Boulting directed Payne in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Moving Finger in 1985.

    Filmography

    Film
    Year Title Role Notes
    1980 The Wildcats of St. Trinian's Miss Taylor

    Television
    Year Title Role Notes
    1963 The Plane Makers Secretary Episode: "Lover Come Back"
    1963–1964 Compact Wendy Millet 26 episodes
    1964 Gideon's Way Alice Short Episode: "The Big Fix"
    1964 The Likely Lads Sheila Mills Episode: "Older Women Are More Experienced"
    1965 Emergency Ward 10 Marlene Episode: #1.780
    1965 Sherlock Holmes Violet Westbury Episode: "The Bruce-Partington Plans"
    1965 The Troubleshooters Sue Andrews Episode: "Young Turk"
    1965 Riviera Police Ilia Dutton Episode: "There Comes a Point"
    1964–1965 ITV Play of the Week Girl

    Nurse

    		 2 episodes
    1965–1969 The Newcomers Janet Langley 257 episodes
    1971 Scene Episode: "Clean Sweep"
    1972 Man at the Top Janet Adams

    Lady Hudson

    		 3 episodes
    1964–1972 Z Cars Jean

    Beryl

    		 3 episodes
    1972 General Hospital Doreen Richards 2 episodes
    1974 Miss Nightingate Pearl Pringle Television film
    1974 Microbes and Men Marie Semmelweis Episode: "The Invisible Enemy"
    1978 1990 Barbara Fairlie 2 episodes
    1978 Scorpion Tales Karen Oldfield Episode: "The Ghost in the Pale Blue Dress"
    1978 The Sweeney Meryl Episode: "Latin Lady"
    1978 The Professionals Phillipa Episode: "Blind Run"
    1979 Tales of the Unexpected Miss Pulteney Episode: "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat"
    1979 Atom Spies Marianne Pontecorvo Television film
    1979 Shelley Angie Episode: "Gainfully Unemployed"
    1979 George and Mildred Penelope Episode: "The Twenty-Six Year Itch"
    1979 Collision Course Ruth Penderson Television film
    1979–1980 The Old Curiosity Shop Mrs. Quilp 6 episodes
    1980 All Creatures Great and Small Marjorie Gillard Episode: "Home and Away"
    1980 Just Liz Liz Parker 6 episodes
    1982–1983 Triangle Christine Harris 52 episodes
    1983 Only Fools and Horses Margaret MacKenzie Episode: "Homesick"
    1985 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Moving Finger Eryl Griffith 2 episodes
    1986 Never the Twain Belinda Episode: "In Whom We Tryst"
    1986 David Copperfield Mrs Micawber 4 episodes
    1988 Jack the Ripper Mrs. Acland 2 episodes
    1990–1994 Waiting for God Marion Ballard 46 episodes
    1996 Roger Roger Pam Television film

    References
    1. Lees, Gene (2005). The Musical Worlds of Lerner and Loewe. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-8040-3.
    2. "Obituary—Roy Boulting". The Telegraph UK. 8 November 2001. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
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