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Petronella Barker (actress, born )
British actress
For the Norwegian of the same name, see Petronella Barker (actress, born ).
Petronella Barker (born 12 October ) is a British actress.
Life
The daughter of the comedy actor Eric Barker and the actress Pearl Hackney, she grew up in the village of Stalisfield, Kent, and was educated at Ashford School.[1]
Barker trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama from to ,[2] in her final year winning the Carleton Hobbs Bursary, which gave her a six-month contract with the BBC's Radio Drama Company.[3] In she joined the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre for three plays: Inadmissible Evidence (understudy), Julius Caesar (crowd and understudy), and Cuckoo in the Nest, in which she played Rawlins.[2] During four seasons with the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic Theatre between and she appeared in: Hobson's Choice (as Ada Figgins), Mother Courage and Her Chil