Wanda Ventham Biography

Fast Facts

• Best known for performing the character of Colonel Virginia Lake in the science-fiction television series “UFO” in 1970 and 1971 and in the movies “UFO: Prendeteli vivi” and “Invasion: UFO” in 1974
• She is the wife of English actor Timothy Carlton and the mother of English actor and producer Benedict Cumberbatch
• She performed the character of Pamela Parry, Cassandra Trotter's mother, in the comedy television series “Only Fools and Horses” from 1989 to 1992
• In the British crime television series “Sherlock,” created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, they perform the parents of Sherlock Holmes, who is played by their real son Benedict Cumberbatch