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Barbara Ewing (born 14 January 1939) is a New Zealand actress, playwright and novelist based in the UK. In the 1980s Ewing played the character Agnes Fairchild in British comedy series Brass. Ewing's novel The Petticoat Men was shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award in 2015.
Barbara Ewing. Actress: Mute. Born in 1939 in Carterton, New Zealand, she and her two younger brothers grew up in the city of Wellington. After graduating from Victoria University with a BA in English and Maori, Barbara Ewing left her homeland in 1962 on a government scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Writer and Actress. One Minute Crying Time. In 1962, the young New Zealand actress Barbara Ewing, left for London, to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She went on to have a distinguished career in the theatre and in television and film, and to write celebrated novels.
Barbara Ewing. Actress: Mute. Born in 1939 in Carterton, New Zealand, she and her two younger brothers grew up in the city of Wellington. After graduating from Victoria University with a BA in English and Maori, Barbara Ewing left her homeland in 1962 on a government scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Barbara is the author of seven historical novels including A Dangerous Vine which was longlisted for the Orange Prize, The Trespass set in colonial New Zealand, and most recently The Petticoat Men which was shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award for crime writing.
Dec 9, 2022 · Barbara Ewing - New Zealand-born actor Barbara Ewing appeared in 1960s British horror films, and won fame in England as buxom Agnes Fairchild on 1980s TV comedy Brass. Ewing was raised in New Zealand, before leaving to train at RADA in London.
May 14, 2020 · Linda Burgess and Michael Hurst with quite different takes on a new book by New Zealand-born actress, playwright and writer Barbara Ewing. Michael Hurst. This is a memoir very much written from...
Twenty-one years after her second novel made headlines, New Zealand actress and author Barbara Ewing is back in the spotlight following the book's re-release.
New Zealand born and educated, Barbara Ewing is a writer and actor. To date, she has published nine, mainly historical, novels. She published her first novel Strangers in the UK and America in 1976, but did not resume novel writing until 20 years later.
May 16, 2020 · New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing has written a memoir about life as a young woman in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s, before she headed off to study in London.
