Linda Thorson (born Linda Robinson on June 18, 1947 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress, most famous for her work as Tara King in The Avengers.
Born Linda Robinson in Toronto, Canada she took a secretarial course before working in her father's confectionary business. Moving to Britain in 1965, she trained at RADA. An alumna of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), her professional name is based upon her first married name, Mrs Barry B...
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Linda Thorson (born Linda Robinson on June 18, 1947 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress, most famous for her work as Tara King in The Avengers.
Born Linda Robinson in Toronto, Canada she took a secretarial course before working in her father's confectionary business. Moving to Britain in 1965, she trained at RADA. An alumna of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), her professional name is based upon her first married name, Mrs Barry Bergthorson.
She was married to the American news anchorman and producer Bill Boggs with whom she has a son named Trevor, but they divorced. She married production designer Gavin Mitchell on 20 November 2005.
Thorson is best known for her role as Tara King (succeeding Diana Rigg as Emma Peel) in the last season of the British TV adventure series, The Avengers, with the original star Patrick Macnee. She was reunited with Macnee in a commercial for Laurent-Perrier champagne in the mid 1970s which led to the series reappearing as The New Avengers,...
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