Linda Thorson
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| Linda Thorson | |
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 Linda as Rosemary King |
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| Born | June 18, 1947 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Linda Thorson (born Linda Robinson, June 18, 1947, Toronto, Ontario), is a Canadian actress on TV and films, mostly in the UK and United States.
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[edit] Personal life
An alumna of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), her professional name is based upon her first married name, Mrs Barry Bergthorson.
She was married to the American news anchorman and producer Bill Boggs with whom she has a son named Trevor, but they divorced. She married production designer Gavin Mitchell on 20 November 2005.
[edit] Acting roles
Thorson is best known for her role as Tara King (succeeding Diana Rigg) in the last season of the British TV adventure series, The Avengers, with the original star Patrick Macnee. She was reunited with Macnee in a commercial for Laurent-Perrier champagne in the mid 1970s which led to the series reappearing as The New Avengers, although Thorson did not reprise her role.
Since then, she appeared in character roles in many TV series and films, including Thriller, Return of the Saint, The Greek Tycoon (1978), Sweet Liberty (1986), and Marblehead Manor (1987). She had a lengthy run in the daytime drama One Life to Live as Julia Medina. She also appeared in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation - 'The Chase' (1993) (playing a Cardassian starship captain - Gul Ocett) in the early 1990s. Throughout her career Thorson has returned to the stage, performing in over fifty dramatic and musical productions, including five appearances on Broadway.
In 2002 she portrayed a Supreme Court Justice in the movie Half Past Dead with Steven Seagal and Ja Rule.
[edit] Emmerdale
Thorson most recently appeared in the popular UK soap opera Emmerdale, playing the scheming millionairess Rosemary King. The storyline between her character Rosemary and daughter-in-law Perdy Hyde-Sinclair came to a quick and dramatic conclusion following off-screen acrimony during summer filming. She became difficult with crew members and halted filming when she refused to speak her lines, forcing co-stars Georgia Slowe, Christopher Villiers and Matt Healy to work round her. As a result of this, Kathleen Beedles, then the series producer, felt her behaviour was unacceptable and terminated her contract. Her character was driven from the village in disgrace after it was discovered that she had tried to poison Perdy. Her final scenes were aired in September 2007.
As a result of her sacking, storylines had to be re-written. Originally, Rosemary was to have her revenge on the King family, a storyline which would have involved the King brothers, Grayson and Perdy Sinclair and Chas Dingle.
