Wanda Ventham

Birth Name:

Wanda Ventham

Profession

Actress

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

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