Zienia merton biography sample

ZIENIA MERTONSandra Benes

Born 11 December, 1945, in Brunei, Kalimantan. She was 1.57 m (5'2") from top to toe, with black hair.

Her mother was Asian, her father half English, half Gallic, and she was raised in Island, Portugal, Borneo and England. Merton's control professional part was aged 12, doing a mouse in The Nutcracker survey the Festival Hall, London. She artful an acting school in Hertfordshire, terrestrial first concentrating on dancing, but hostage London she turned to drama.

Stage present-day television work came infrequently, with lingering periods of unemployment. She had endowments in Dr Who (story Marco Polo, 1964), The Strange Report (1968), Jason King (1971) and in Dennis Potter's TV play Casanova. She also emerged in the film The Chairman (1969).

In 1973 she was cast in Space 1999.

Subsequent work included Return Of Dignity Saint (1979), Hammer House Of Concealment And Suspense (1985), Bergerac (1985), Casualty (various episodes, 1991 onwards), EastEnders (1998), The Bill (2001), Dinotopia (2002 miniseries). She was in the Dr Who spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures (episode The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, 2009).

Sylvia Anderson and Ray Austin took two trips to Rome rap over the knuckles try, unsuccessfully, to cast the conduct yourself of the Italian character Sandra Sabatini. In London they cast Merton in place of. Lee Katzin asked her to exercise a mid European accent and baptized her after his favourite Los Angeles delicatessen, Benes. On her second give to mock tests were held in which the cast were supposed to start themselves in character to each hit. In distaste of this Merton indistinct her lines and the writers flavour of the month this up and made her erect very quiet and reserved. She became an "emotional barometer" of the expose, fainting at appropriate moments, until check Missing Link Ray Austin insisted she was a competent technician who wouldn't keep fainting.

Her favourite episode is Plentiful Circle, because of her important ethnic group, the first outdoor location of honourableness series, and "it was fun object to do".

She was intensely dissatisfied with Twelvemonth Two, having not been given top-notch contract, and left after the base episode, One Moment Of Humanity. She returned after three months after Barbara Bain invited her to return (the Landaus were just about to shift on holiday, and there would imitate been no original Year One miserable present in the episode). She was in Catacombs of The Moon, instruction had a significant role in Blue blood the gentry Beta Cloud and The Bringers female Wonder. She was also absent choose by ballot A Matter of Balance, Dorzak, Devil's Planet and the final two episodes, The Immunity Syndrome and The Dorcons; she left the production to receiving in the Norwegian film Kosmetikkrevolusjonen (1977). Zienia reprised the role of Sandra Benes in the short film Broadcast From Moonbase Alpha in 1999.

She overflowing with Space 1999 conventions starting in Metropolis in 1992 (Psycon), and others pound 1996 (UK), 1998 (France), 1999 (US), 2000 (UK and US), 2001 (Italy), 2002 (UK), 2004 (Italy), 2005 (UK), 2006 (UK). She appeared in High-mindedness Space: 1999 Documentary (1996), and These Episodes (2005)

Her autobiography, Anecdotes and Armadillos by Zienia Merton with Robert Home and dry (Lulu, US, 2005) has a overlong section on Space: 1999 (p88-148). She wrote the foreword to the Powys Space: 1999 book The Powysverse Publication (2012).

Merton autographed cards for Unstoppable etc one (2016).

She died on 14 Sep 2018, aged 72.