Angela Richards

Who is Angela Richards?

Angela Richards is an English actress and singer, best known to television viewers for her leading role in the BBC drama Secret Army, set during the Second World War in which she played Monique Duchamps.

Richards, with help from Ken Moule and Leslie Osborne, wrote and sang many of the songs that were a regular and popular feature of the series, including "Memories Come Gently", "Velvet Blue", "I Bet You've Heard This One Before", "Good to Me", "All Our Yesterdays", "When We Can Live in Peace Once More" and "If This Is The Last Time I See You".

A graduate of RADA, Richards is also well known for her body of work in musical theatre, having starred in several West End productions such as Robert and Elizabeth, Cats, High Society, Blood Brothers, Cole and Liza of Lambeth. Recent musical theatre work includes: Dorothy Fields Forever and Call Me Merman.

Her other television credits include Villette, Candide, King of the Castle, Kessler, Minder, Across the Lake with Anthony Hopkins and Hetty Wainthrop Investigates.

In March 2006, over two nights at the King's Head Theatre, Richards returned to the songs she created for Secret Army, in a show entitled An Evening at Le Candide.