Anthea Shirley Askey (2 March 1933 – 28 February 1999) was an English actress, particularly prominent on television in the 1950s.

Anthea Askey was born in Golders Green, north London, to the comedian and actor Arthur Askey, and his wife Elizabeth May Swash. She featured in many television roles alongside her father.

Anthea Askey

Her early television appearances included Love and Kisses, where she played Rose Brown, whose father Bill was played by her father; while other TV and films include The Love Match, Ramsbottom Rides Again, Before Your Very Eyes, Living It Up, The Dickie Henderson Half-Hour, Arthur's Treasured Volumes and a cameo appearance in Make Mine a Million in 1959.

Anthea Askey

In 1993, she appeared in Climb the Greasy Pole: Part 1, an episode of The Darling Buds of May.

Anthea Askey

Askey died in Worthing, West Sussex, on 28 February 1999, two days before her 66th birthday.

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1933 births

1999 deaths

English television actresses

People from Golders Green

20th-century British actresses

20th-century English women

20th-century English actresses

20th-century British businesspeople