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Nyree Dawn Porter OBE (22 January 1936/1940 – 10 April 2001), born Ngaire Porter ("Nyree" is the phonetic spelling of her name), was a New Zealand-born actress of stage, film and television.
Porter was born in Napier, New Zealand. Her first professional work was touring with the New Zealand Players Trust. She was acclaimed for such roles as Jessica in The Merchant of Venice and Juliet in Romanoff and Juliet. She also performed in revues and musicals, including Love from Judy and The Solid Gold Cadillac.
Porter moved to Britain in 1958 after winning a Miss Cinema talent competition for young actresses organised by Rank, with the prize of a round-the-world trip and a film test in London. Although the test was probably little more than a publicity stunt, she decided to stay and was soon acting in the theatre. Look Who's Here at the Fortune Theatre in Drury Lane was her first West End appearance.
She followed this with the role of Connie in Neil Simon's first West End play, Come Blow Your Horn, and a string of other appearances including those in The Duel[disambiguation needed ], The Dragon Variation, Murder in Mind, Anastasia and Deadly Nightcap. Porter also had two roles in Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, at the National Theatre in 1990 and played Olivia in Twelfth Night at the Shaw Theatre, and Rosalind in As You Like It at the Ludlow Festival. She also toured in Australia, in Jeffrey Archer's Beyond Reasonable Doubt and later, in The King and I.
Anthony "Tony" Anholt (19 January 1941 – 26 July 2002) was a British actor best known for his roles as Security Chief Tony Verdeschi in the second season of Gerry Anderson's television series Space: 1999 (1976–1977), Paul Buchet in The Protectors (1972–1973) and as Charles Frere in the highly-successful BBC drama series Howards' Way (1985–1990).
Anholt was originally a continuity announcer for the BBC World Service. He also made a guest appearance in the Only Fools and Horses episode To Hull and Back as Boycie's business partner Abdul.
He was born in Singapore. His family moved to Australia before the end of World War II, then to South Africa for a brief time, and eventually settled in the United Kingdom. He married and divorced twice. The first, in 1964, to Sheila Willet, with whom he had a son, actor Christien Anholt. They divorced in 1986. His second marriage was in 1990, to actress Tracey Childs, his co-star in Howards' Way. They divorced in 1998.
Anholt's last filmed acting work was for Canadian television productions; he appeared in small roles in several episodes of Lexx and also guest starred on his son Christien's series, Relic Hunter.
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It is Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in the present day (following The Secret Service). It is also the only Gerry Anderson-produced television series to date that is not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction elements, The Protectors became one of Anderson's most popular productions, easily winning a renewal for a second season. A third season was in the planning stages when the show's major sponsor pulled out, forcing its cancellation.
The Protectors first aired in 1972 and 1973, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long - making it one of the last series of this type to be produced in a half-hour format. It starred Robert Vaughn (of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. fame) as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter (The Forsyte Saga) as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt (Space: 1999, Howard's Way) as Paul Buchet. Episodes often featured prominent guest actors.
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