- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJacqueline Kay Pearce
- Nickname
- Jacks
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Jacqueline Pearce was born on December 20, 1943 in Byfleet, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Blake's 7 (1978), David Copperfield (1974) and White Mischief (1987). She was married to Drewe Henley and Michael Rudman. She died on September 3, 2018 in Lancashire, England, UK.
- SpousesDrewe Henley(December 21, 1963 - 1967) (divorced)Michael Rudman (divorced)
- She has moved to South Africa to look after orphaned Vervet Monkeys.
- Jacqueline made her breakthrough appearing in Hammer horror films. When she was just starting out, the director John Gilling told her that she had 'a wonderful face for films' and promptly cast her as one of the undead in The Plague of the Zombies (1966).
- Attended the Marist Convent School for Girls at West Byfleet.
- Grew up spending time both living at her father's home in Byfleet and with a foster family, after her mother had left and abandoned her when she was 16 months old.
- Suffered from clinical depression during periods of her life.
- [on her role in Blake's 7 (1978)] I'd been a masturbatory fantasy for an entire generation of young men. I mean, that made a girl feel good.
- I got divorced. I just wanted to get away. I joined the Actors Studio because I wasn't working and so I was going crazy. I didn't have a work permit. I knew I had to do something, so I went to the Actors Studio and auditioned and passed and was accepted, which meant I could work there. So it was a way of saving my sanity.
- I went straight off to America the day after we finished the show and spent some time in New York and Mississippi and then went out to Los Angeles and I saw Terry Nation when I was in Hollywood. He doesn't want to be in England any more. You can understand. It takes so long to get anything done here. Anyway, I came back from there and I was offered a film which I turned down. It was vulgar, cheap and exploitative.
- On fellow co-star Paul Darrow I'm very instinctive in the way I work - You ask Paul Darrow (Avon in Blake's 7 (1978)). I love working with him. We work together very, very well. Paul always knows what he's doing in front of a camera; technically, he's quite brilliant and I rely on him for that. He will make sure I'm in the light or not blocking myself. He lets me go completely intuitively and he responds to that. It's like a wonderful marriage: very rare and wonderful when it happens.
- Well, I love New York passionately, but Los Angeles is like a planet all on its own. It's hard enough to cope if you're a man. It's virtually impossible if you're a woman. Also, I didn't get a work permit from working with Strasberg (Lee Strasberg). I just became a member of the Studio. It took about three years to get my work permit, by which time I was so homesick I just had to come home.
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