Charlotte Long

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Charlotte Helen Long (9 October 1965 – 6 October 1984) was a minor British actress, the youngest daughter of the 4th Viscount Long. She attended Fitzmaurice Grammar School until its closure in 1980 and then St Laurence Comprehensive School, both in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire.

Long played "Alison" in the television adaptations of Peter Glidewell's Schoolgirl Chums and St. Ursula's in Danger in 1982 and '83 respectively. She then went on to play "Rosemary" in the 1984 film, The Chain.

Long was cast as "Eloise de Ricordeau" in the first series of the The Tripods but was replaced by Cindy Shelley during the second series, after Long was killed in a car accident on the M4 motorway, when a lorry crashed into her car after it had broken down and was parked on the hard shoulder. Her passenger survived with only minor injuries. The resulting inquest heard that the lorry driver had sneezed, causing his vehicle to crash into the parked car.

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Charlotte Long at the Internet Movie Database
Clark, Alan. (1994). Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 ISBN 978-1857991420 — Entries for Saturday, 10 September 1983 & Friday, 12 October 1984