Trivia

After repertory seasons at York and Sheffield, she appeared in Night Must Fall at Theatre Royal, Windsor. Thorne then joined the Ralph Richardson Theatre company at the the Haymarket Theatre, and played Gloria in You Never Can Tell, Portia in the Merchant of Venice and Julia in The Rivals.

She trained for the stage at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

In 1989, she voiced the role of Elizabeth II in The BFG, the film adaptation of Roald Dahl's book.

She is an English actress of stage, television and film who is best known for her roles in To the Manor Born, as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton's best friend Marjory Frobisher, and as Margaret Thatcher in Anyone for Denis?.

The daughter of an Indian Army doctor father, William Herbert Alfred Thorne, and a teacher mother, Sylvia (Leslie), she spent the first five years of her life in India.

Her first professional engagement was with the Caryl Jenner Children's Theatre.

She was a pupil at Farlington School in Horsham, West Sussex.

She was also known for playing .Marjorie Frobisher in To the Manor Born and Daphne Trenchard in Three Up Two Down.

Specialised in upper-crust roles.

She died only one day after her Elizabeth R (1971) co-star Glenda Jackson.