Angela Thorne Angela Thorne Angela Thorne (born 25 January 1939) 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?" Angela Thorne was born in Karachi, British India, in 1939. 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. She was later a pupil at Farlington School in Horsham, West Sussex. She trained for the stage
British sitcom City" and NBC's "Will & Grace". Most PBS stations affectionately refer to British sitcoms as "Britcoms". Several British sitcoms have been successfully remade for the American market. Notable examples include "Steptoe and Son" which became "Sanford and Son", "Till Death Us Do Part", which became "All in the Family" on CBS and "The Office" which was remade into an American series of the same name. Three's Company, a remake of Man About the House, spawned identical spinoffs: The Ropers (George and Mildred) and Three's a Crowd (Robin's Nest). More recently, shows such as "The Inbetweeners" have been adapted, as well