{{notability|1=Biographies|date=March 2026}} {{Short description|English actress (born 1946)}} {{Infobox person | name = Karen Ford | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1946|2|9|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | occupation = Actress | spouse = {{marriage|Rio Fanning|1988|2018|end=died}} | parents = | children = }} '''Karen Ford''' (born 9 February 1946) is an English actress.
==Life== Ford born 9 February 1946.<ref>{{cite web |access-date=1 March 2026 |title = Karen Ford |website=bfi.org.uk |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123012108/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba3291e59}}</ref> She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.<ref>{{cite web |access-date=1 March 2026 |title = Karen Ford |website=app.spotlight.com |url=https://app.spotlight.com/4375-3425-0445}}</ref> Her first contract after leaving this school was at the newly built Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.<ref>{{cite web |access-date=1 March 2026 |title = Karen Ford |website=oxfordshiretheatremakers.com |url=https://www.oxfordshiretheatremakers.com/karenford}}</ref>
Ford appeared in stage productions such as ''The Doctor’s Dilemma'' by George Bernard Shaw (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and West End theatre), John Kerr's ''Mistress of Novices'' (West End theatre) and ''Otherwise Engaged'' by Simon Gray.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/451/karen-ford|title=Karen Ford|website=Theatricalia}}</ref> She participated in a number of films, including ''Fame'' (1980), ''Willie & Phil'' (1980) and ''Flyboys'' (2006). She appeared in television series such as ''The Avengers'', ''Softly, Softly'', ''Grange Hill'', ''Doctors'' and ''Emmerdale''. Ford's last screen credit was in the short film ''From What I Remember'' (2026).
===Personal life=== Ford married the actor and writer Rio Fanning in 1988; Fanning died in 2018.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lentz |first1=Harris M. III |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018 |date=2019 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |isbn=978-1-4766-3655-9 |url=https://www.google.ru/books/edition/Obituaries_in_the_Performing_Arts_2018/CfWaDwAAQBAJ |access-date=March 1, 2026 |language=en}}</ref>
==Selected filmography==
=== Television === {| class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Title !Role ! class="unsortable" |Notes |- |1967 |''The Avengers'' |Nurse |Episode: "Never, Never Say Die" |- |1967 |''Vendetta'' |Claudia di Benco |Episode: "The Scandal Man" |- |1967 |''The Revenue Men'' |June Carroll |Episode: "The New Faces" |- |1968 |''Softly, Softly'' |Ruth Watkins |Episode: "An Old Song" |- |1968 |''The Jazz Age'' |Adela |Episode: "Lonely Road" |- |1969 |''The Wednesday Play'' | |Episode: "Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage" |- |1970 |''NBC Experiment in Television'' |Secretary |Episode: "The Engagement" |- |1970 |''Doomwatch'' |Mrs. Bonenti |Episode: "Spectre at the Feast" |- |1977 |''Z-Cars'' |Miss Rankine |Episode: "Transit" |- |1977 |''Crossroads'' |Mandy Scott |Episode #2830 |- |1985-91 |''Grange Hill'' |Booth |119 Episodes |- |1992 |''Screen One'' |Publisher 1 |Episode: "Running Late" |- |1993 |''EastEnders'' |Clerk |Episode #868 |- |1993 |''The Bill'' |Mrs. Gale |Episode: "Divided We Fall" |- |1996 |''The 10%ers'' |Shelley Johnson |Episode: "Every Cloud" |- |1997 |''Peak Practice'' |Dr. Grant |Episode: "Lost Feelings" |- |1999 |''Holby City'' |Mrs. Fallon |3 Episodes |- |2014 |''Coronation Street'' |Kerry Waddle |Episode #8494 |- |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0285729|name= Karen Ford}} *[https://management2000.co.uk/cvs/karen_ford.htm Karen Ford] at management2000.co.uk
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ford, Karen}} Category:1946 births Category:Living people Category:English stage actresses Category:English film actresses Category:English television actresses Category:20th-century English actresses