Editing Felicity Kendal

{{short description|English actress (born 1946)}}
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{{Infobox person
| image              = File:Felicity Kendal, 2024.jpg
| caption            = Kendal in June 2024
| name               = Felicity Kendal
| honorific_suffix   = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}}
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1946|9|25|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[Olton]], Warwickshire, England
| occupation         = Actress
| years_active       = 1967–present
| spouse             = {{ubl|{{marriage|[[Drewe Henley]]<br/>|1968|1979|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[Michael Rudman]]<br/>|1983|1990|end=div}}}}
| partner            = {{Nowrap|[[Tom Stoppard]] (1991–1998)<br/>Michael Rudman (1998–2023; his death)<ref name="Telegraph">Nikkhah, Roya (2015). [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11511700/Felicity-Kendal-Im-happy-with-my-ex-husband-but-wont-marry-him-again.html "Felicity Kendal: I'm happy with my ex-husband — but won't marry him again"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412021654/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11511700/Felicity-Kendal-Im-happy-with-my-ex-husband-but-wont-marry-him-again.html |date=12 April 2019 }}, ''The Telegraph'' (London), 3 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2019.</ref>}}
| children           = 2, including [[Charley Henley]]
| father             = [[Geoffrey Kendal]]
| mother             = Laura Liddell
| relatives          = [[Jennifer Kendal]] (sister)
}}
'''Felicity Ann Kendal''' (born 25 September 1946) is an English actress, working principally in television and theatre. She has appeared in numerous stage and screen roles over a more than 70-year career, including as Barbara Good in the television series ''[[The Good Life (1975 TV series)|The Good Life]]'' from 1975 to 1977. Kendal was born in [[Olton]], England, but moved to India with her family from the age of seven. Her father was an English actor-manager who led his own repertory company on tours of India, and Kendal appeared in roles for the company both before and after leaving England. She appeared in the film ''[[Shakespeare Wallah]]'' (1965) which was inspired by her family.

Kendal made several television appearances, starting with ''Love Story'' in 1966, and made her London stage debut in ''Minor Murder'' (1967) at the [[Savoy Theatre]]. She was approached to appear in ''The Good Life'' while appearing in ''[[The Norman Conquests]]'', and appeared in all four series. She later went on to star in the sitcoms ''[[Solo (TV series)|Solo]]'' (1981–82) and ''[[The Mistress (TV series)|The Mistress]]'' (1985 and 1987) which were scripted by [[Carla Lane]]. Later television work included ''[[The Camomile Lawn (TV serial)|The Camomile Lawn]]'' (1992), which as of 2022 it remained the most-watched drama ever on [[Channel 4]]. However, the poor reception to the 1994 sitcom ''[[Honey for Tea]]'' led Kendal to focus on stage rather than television work for some years. She co-starred with [[Pam Ferris]] on television in ''[[Rosemary & Thyme]]'' (2003–2006) as one of a pair of gardeners and detectives.

Her stage career blossomed during the 1980s and 1990s when she formed a close professional association with [[Tom Stoppard]], starring in the first productions of many of his plays, including ''[[On the Razzle (play)|On the Razzle]]'' (1981), ''[[The Real Thing (play)|The Real Thing]]'' (1982), ''[[Hapgood (play)|Hapgood]]'' (1988), and ''[[Arcadia (play)|Arcadia]]'' (1993). She also appeared in ten plays directed by [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]], from portraying Constanze Mozart in ''[[Amadeus (play)|Amadeus]]'' (1979) to Esme in ''[[Amy's View]]'' (2006). She took her first role in a [[Musical theatre|musical]] as Evangeline Harcourt in the 2021 London revival of ''[[Anything Goes]]'' at the [[Barbican Theatre]]. In 2023, she starred as Dotty Otley in ''[[Noises Off]]'' at the [[Phoenix Theatre, London|Phoenix Theatre]] and the [[Theatre Royal Haymarket]]. Many of her stage performances have been critically acclaimed. Kendal was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[1995 New Year Honours]] for services to drama.

==Early life==
Felicity Ann Kendal was born in [[Olton]], [[Warwickshire]], England, in 1946.<ref name="BBC SCD 2010">{{cite web |title=Strictly Come Dancing: Felicity Kendal |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/strictlycomedancing/2010/dancers/celebrity/felicity_kendal.shtml |publisher=BBC  |year=2010 |access-date=14 December 2012 |archive-date=4 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004052210/http://www.bbc.co.uk/strictlycomedancing/2010/dancers/celebrity/felicity_kendal.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="GALE"/> She is the younger daughter of Laura Liddell and actor and manager [[Geoffrey Kendal]].<ref name="Merchant Ivory Shakespeare"/> Her older sister, [[Jennifer Kendal]], was also an actress.<ref name="GKOBIT"/>

After early years in Birmingham, Kendal lived in India with her family from the age of seven: her father was an English actor-manager who led his own [[Repertory theatre|repertory company]] on tours of India.<ref name="Merchant Ivory Shakespeare"/> The ensemble would perform plays from a repertoire including [[Shakespeare]], [[George Bernard Shaw]], and [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]] to audiences that included schoolchildren, nuns, British expatriates, and royalty.{{sfn|Kendal|1998}}{{sfn|Roisman Cooper|2015|p=207}} As the family travelled, Kendal attended six different Loreto College convent schools in India,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03m7hk6|title=BBC Radio 4 Extra – Desert Island Discs Revisited, The Good Life, Felicity Kendal|publisher=BBC|access-date=15 November 2014|archive-date=14 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140214122211/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03m7hk6|url-status=live}}</ref> until the age of 13.<ref name="REESM">{{cite news |last=Rees |first=Jasper |date=15 November 2006 |title=Why I love playing a monster |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-why-i-love-playing-a/145351183/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420122230/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-why-i-love-playing-a/145351183/ |archive-date=20 April 2024 |access-date=16 April 2024 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |page=35 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She contracted [[typhoid fever]] in Calcutta at the age of 17.<ref name="The Guardian March 2010">{{cite news |last=Greenstreet |first=Rosanna |date=27 March 2010 |title=Q&A: Felicity Kendal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/27/felicity-kendal-interview |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309153316/http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/27/felicity-kendal-interview |archive-date=9 March 2016 |access-date=15 December 2012 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

Kendal made her stage debut for her family's company aged nine months, when she was carried on stage as the [[changeling]] boy in ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''.<ref name="BBC SCD 2010"/><ref name="GALE">{{cite web |title=Felicity Kendal |work=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |volume=115 |publisher=Gale |year=2012 |via=Gale in Context: Biography |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1609030202/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=898d089a. |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 April 2024 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420121834/https://galeapps.gale.com/apps/auth?userGroupName=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-GPS&origURL=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.gale.com%2Fps%2Fi.do%3Fp%3DGPS%26u%3Dwikipedia%26id%3DGALE%7CK1609030202%26v%3D2.1%26it%3Dr%26sid%3Dbookmark-GPS%26asid%3D898d089a.&prodId=GPS |url-status=live }}</ref> Five years later she was the Changeling in the same play, and aged nine she was Macduff's son in a production of ''[[Macbeth]]''.{{sfn|Roisman Cooper|2015|p=207}} Her first speaking role was as [[Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Puck]] in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' when she was 12.{{sfn|Roisman Cooper|2015|p=207}}

Kendal's family and their touring theatre company were the inspiration for the [[Merchant Ivory Productions]] film ''[[Shakespeare Wallah]]'' (1965), which follows the story of nomadic British actors as they perform Shakespeare plays in towns in [[History of Independent India|post-colonial]] India.<ref name="GKOBIT">{{cite news|title=Obituary: Geoffrey Kendal|author=Singh, Kuldip|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-geoffrey-kendal-1165113.html|work=The Independent|date=15 June 1998|accessdate=14 October 2020|archive-date=3 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003205419/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-geoffrey-kendal-1165113.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She played Lizzie Buckingham, the daughter of the company's actor-managers, who falls in love with the son of film star Manjula, portrayed by [[Madhur Jaffrey]].<ref name="Merchant Ivory Shakespeare">{{cite web |title=Shakespeare Wallah |url=http://www.merchantivory.com/shakespeare.html |publisher=[[Merchant Ivory Productions]] |access-date=15 December 2012 |archive-date=3 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103003435/http://www.merchantivory.com/shakespeare.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Lizzie's parents face a dilemma between their deep-seated theatrical ambitions and their fears for the welfare of their daughter.<ref name="Merchant Ivory Shakespeare"/> ''[[The Observer]]'' film critic [[Kenneth Tynan]] wrote a positive review of the film, and considered that the role of the daughter was "fetchingly played by the dumpling-faced Felicity Kendal".<ref>{{cite news |last=Tynan |first=Kenneth |author-link=Kenneth Tynan |title=More bull trouble |newspaper=The Observer |date=7 November 1965 |page=24 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-observer-more-bull-trouble/145502396/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=17 April 2024 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420121834/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-observer-more-bull-trouble/145502396/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Patrick Gibbs]] of ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' named Kendal as his actress of the year,<ref>{{cite news |first=Patrick |last=Gibbs |author-link=Patrick Gibbs |title=Films of the year: Manna for a minority |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=31 December 1965 |page=13 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-films-of-the-year/145534204/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=17 April 2024 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420121717/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-films-of-the-year/145534204/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and said that, that based on her portrayal of [[Ophelia]] in an extract from ''[[Hamlet]]'' within the film, her performance of that role would "rank with any that [he had] seen".<ref>{{cite news |first=Patrick |last=Gibbs |author-link=Patrick Gibbs |title=The morning after |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=17 December 1965 |page=17 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-the-morning-after/145534420/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=17 April 2024 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420121834/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-the-morning-after/145534420/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Speaking to ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' journalist Jasper Rees in 2006, Kendal said that her time in India was "sometimes very hard, sometimes very poor, sometimes ghastly, ghastly, ghastly in all sorts of ways", she did not regret it, and that it was an "amazing way of living".<ref name="REESM"/> She also felt that it prepared her for a career in theatre as she did not have any established expectations about how things should be.<ref name="REESM"/> Aged 17, she moved to England, initially living with her aunt.<ref name="MORLEY82">{{cite news |last=Morley |first=Sheridan |author-link=Sheridan Morley |title=The rigours of a charmed life |newspaper=The Times |date=8 November 1982 |page=11 }}</ref>

==Early television work==
Kendal appeared in two episodes of ''Love Story'' in 1966, and as a teenage [[hippie]] in "The May Fly and the Frog", an episode of ''[[The Wednesday Play]]'' which starred [[John Gielgud]], the same year.<ref name="GALE"/><ref name="BBCG"/><ref name="MORLEY82"/> Her other early TV roles included parts in ''[[Man in a Suitcase]]'' (1967),<ref name="GALE"/><ref name="FKUA"/> ''[[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1968 TV series)|The Tenant of Wildfell Hall]]'' (1968–69), ''[[The Woodlanders (1970 TV series)|The Woodlanders]]''  (1970) and ''[[Jason King (TV series)|Jason King]]'' (1972).<ref name="GALE"/>

In 1975, she appeared as [[Princess Vicky]] in ''[[Edward the Seventh]]''.{{sfn|Webber|2001|p=111}} In his article about Kendal for the [[Museum of Broadcast Communications]] ''[[Encyclopedia of Television]]'', [[David Pickering (writer)|David Pickering]] wrote that in the early years of Kendal's television career, "Producers liked her girlish good looks and bubbly confidence and audiences also quickly warmed to her."{{sfn|Pickering|1997|p=876}}

==''The Good Life''==
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Kendal had her big break on television with the [[BBC]] sitcom ''The Good Life'' which started in 1975.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jan |last=Moir |author-link=Jan Moir |title='I've had more love than most' |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=29 April 1996 |page=15|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-ive-had-more-love-t/145845791/ |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="BFIGL"/> She and [[Richard Briers]] starred as Barbara and Tom Good, a middle-class suburban couple who decide to quit the [[rat race]] and become self-sufficient, much to the consternation of their snooty but well-meaning neighbour Margo ([[Penelope Keith]]) and her down-to-earth husband Jerry Leadbetter ([[Paul Eddington]]).{{sfn|Webber|2001|p=14}}<ref name="BFIGL">{{cite web |first=Mark |last=Duguid |title=Good Life, The (1975–77) |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/579110/index.html |website=BFI ScreenOnline |access-date=14 April 2024 |archive-date=23 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231223090320/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/579110/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Kendal appeared in all 30 episodes, which extended over four series and two specials, until 1977.{{sfn|Webber|2001|p=214}}<ref name="BFIGL"/> BBC Head of Comedy [[James Gilbert (producer)|Jimmy Gilbert]], who had commissioned ''The Good Life'' as a showcase for Briers,{{sfn|Webber|2001|p=2}} saw Kendal and Keith perform in the play ''[[The Norman Conquests]]'' and felt they would suit the roles of Barbara and Margo.{{sfn|Webber|2001|p=14}} Briers approached Kendal in her dressing room and suggested that she read for the part.{{sfn|Koseluk|2000|p=222}} Kendal later recounted that she was keen to get the part, both because she needed work and because she felt a rapport with Briers, who was already established, having appeared regularly in television shows since 1962.{{sfn|Koseluk|2000|p=221-222}} The show's producer [[John Howard Davies]] also went to see the play, and Kendal and Keith were both given parts.{{sfn|Koseluk|2000|p=222}} Eddington also had stage acting experience, and the show's co-writer [[Bob Larbey]] felt that having a cast of actors, rather than a comedian as a central figure, made writing episodes easier.{{sfn|Koseluk|2000|p=221-222}} In her 1988 book ''White Cargo'', Kendal reflected that the lead actors' stage experience and their attitude "to be actors first and stars second" was an important factor in the show's success.{{sfn|Kendal|1998|p=292}} She commented that from the beginning, "we slotted into a way of working together that was fun, fast and furious{{nbsp}}... all extremely professional, ambitious and hard-working, and our dedication to the show was total."{{sfn|Koseluk|2000|p=223}} She also felt that Larbey and his co-writer [[Esmonde and Larbey|John Esmonde]] tailored the scripts so that they were for the "actors and characters combined".{{sfn|Koseluk|2000|p=224}}

Although Barbara has her doubts about Tom's plans for self-sufficiency at first, she supports him emotionally and practically.{{sfn|Webber|2001|p=106}}{{sfn|Lewisohn|2003|p=325}} The cultural historian [[Mark Lewisohn]] commented that it was obvious that Barbara and Tom "enjoy a great marriage, being fully attuned to one another's needs and desires".{{sfn|Lewisohn|2003|p=325}} The [[British Film Institute]]'s page about Kendal, written by Tise Vahimagi, argues that the four lead characters were relatable, "with Kendal standing out as the epitome of friendly suburban sexiness in her tight blue jeans".<ref name="BFIS"/> On the Institute's page about ''The Good Life'', Mark Duguid wrote that "Felicity Kendal's lively, sexy Barbara won her the adoration of millions of British men" in a very popular show that was a "gentle social satire of the suburban middle-class".<ref name="BFIGL"/> For Pickering, Kendal's "whimsical, puckish charm and endearingly good-humoured outlook made her ideal for the role".{{sfn|Pickering|1997|p=876}}

After a low-key start, the programme quickly became popular, attracting audiences of about 14 million for new episodes.{{sfn|Koseluk|2000|p=223}}{{sfn|Bonner|Jacobs|2017}} By the last episode, Esmonde and Larbey felt that the main storylines had come to a natural end, and decided not to write further episodes.{{sfn|Koseluk|2000|p=223}} The last regular episode aired in May 1977 and was followed by a 1977 Christmas special.{{sfn|Koseluk|2000|p=250-251}} The cast reunited for a 1978 [[Royal Command Performance]].{{sfn|Koseluk|2000|p=223}} It has often received repeated showings on the BBC, typically at prime viewing times, and the repeats typically attracted high audiences.{{sfn|Lewisohn|2003|p=326}}

The film and television studies scholars Frances Bonner and Jason Jacobs contended that although ''The Good Life'' was consistently a reference point across the coverage later careers of each of the lead actors, this was most pronounced in the case of Kendal.{{sfn|Bonner|Jacobs|2017}} Kendal has maintained that the character of Barbara Good is very dissimilar to her as a person.{{sfn|Bonner|Jacobs|2017}} In a 2010 interview, she said of her close association with the character that "[''The Good Life''] is always on some channel or another. I think it's rather nice. It's following me like a good fairy."<ref name="HARRIES">{{cite news |first=Rhiannon |last=Harries |title=Felicity Kendal: 'Barbara follows me around like a good fairy' |date=7 March 2010 |newspaper=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/felicity-kendal-barbara-follows-me-around-like-a-good-fairy-1917439.html |access-date=19 April 2024 |archive-date=11 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011072650/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/felicity-kendal-barbara-follows-me-around-like-a-good-fairy-1917439.html |url-status=live }}</ref> She added that while the other lead characters were like people that the viewers might know personally, Barbara "had all the ingredients – feisty, strong but adoring, up for anything, very funny – that people find attractive".<ref name="HARRIES"/>

==Later television work==
Davies was so impressed by the performances from Kendal, Keith and Eddington that when he was Head of Comedy for the BBC, he gave them all starring roles in new series: ''[[Yes Minister]]'' for Eddington, ''[[To The Manor Born]]'' for Keith, and ''[[Solo (TV series)|Solo]]'' (1981–82) for Kendal.{{sfn|Webber|2001|p=16}}
[[Carla Lane]] wrote ''Solo'', in which Kendal played the lead role of Gemma Palmer, who decides to split from her boyfriend and live independently.{{sfn|Webber|2001|p=113}}<ref>{{cite news |first=Stuart |last=Johnson |title=Wendy had the bright idea |newspaper=Manchester Evening News |date=10 January 1981 |page=10}}</ref> Lane also wrote ''[[The Mistress (TV series)|The Mistress]]'' (1985 and 1987) in which Kendal portrayed a florist having an affair with a married man, played by Jack Galloway in 1985 and with a different character played by [[Peter McEnery]] in the 1987 version.{{sfn|Webber|2001|p=113}}<ref name="BFIS"/> Both ''Solo'' and ''The Mistress'' were positively received,{{sfn|Webber|2001|p=113}} although some viewers were disappointed by the lack of innocence displayed by Kendal's character in ''The Mistress'' compared to that of the Barbara Good character.{{sfn|Pickering|1997|p=877}} Bonner and Jacobs commented that "As Barbara, her sexiness was contained in the loving relationship with her husband, but her subsequent casting in the TV sitcoms ''Solo'' (1981–82) and ''The Mistress'' (1985–87) reveals even in their titles a making of her imaginatively available for the lustful viewer."{{sfn|Bonner|Jacobs|2017}} The media scholar Mary Irwin considers that Kendal has avoided being typecast in roles of "acquiescent girlfriend or supportive wife", and that in ''Solo'' and ''The Mistress'' she "cut through commonplace binaries situating sitcom women as either bimbos or battleaxes".{{sfn|Irwin|2015|p=98}}

''[[The Camomile Lawn (TV serial)|The Camomile Lawn]]'' (1992) starred Kendal as Helena Cuthbertson, whose property encompassed a mansion and the lawn in the title.<ref name="GCAM">{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Hogan |title=Wow, there's a lot of sex and swearing': Channel 4's top-rated drama ever, 30 years on |date=8 March 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/08/the-camomile-lawn-channel-4-30-years |access-date=16 April 2024 |archive-date=26 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326165451/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/08/the-camomile-lawn-channel-4-30-years |url-status=live }}</ref> Eddington played her husband Richard.<ref name="GCAM"/> Attracting over seven million viewers, as of 2022 it remained the most-watched drama ever on [[Channel 4]].<ref name="GCAM"/> However the 1994 sitcom ''[[Honey for Tea]]'' starring Kendal was later described by Maureen Paton of ''the Daily Telegraph'' as "an unmitigated flop".<ref name="PATON03">{{cite news |first=Maureen |last=Paton |title=I never saw myself as a sex symbol |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=7 August 2003 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3600042/I-never-saw-myself-as-a-sex-symbol.html |access-date=16 April 2024 |archive-date=20 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920184946/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3600042/I-never-saw-myself-as-a-sex-symbol.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Her American accent in the show was mocked by TV critic and humourist [[Victor Lewis-Smith]]: "In a single phrase, she veered uncontrollably from the Bronx to South Africa via Surrey, like some linguistic Spruce Goose, awkwardly taking off only to crash-land again within moments."{{sfn|Lewis-Smith|1995|p=40}}

Having focused on her theatre rather than her television career for some years following the poor reception to ''Honey for Tea'',<ref name="PATON03"/> in 2003 Kendal co-starred with [[Pam Ferris]] in ''[[Rosemary & Thyme]]'' as a pair of gardeners and detectives.<ref name="MENRT">{{cite news |title=Telly talk: Thyme to be telly 'tecs again |newspaper=Manchester Evening News |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/film-and-tv/telly-talk-thyme-to-be-telly-tecs-1123442 |date=19 February 2007 |access-date=16 April 2024 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420121853/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/film-and-tv/telly-talk-thyme-to-be-telly-tecs-1123442 |url-status=live }}</ref> Kendal's character Rosemary Boxer is a University of [[Malmesbury]] lecturer in applied [[horticulture]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itv.com/Drama/family/RosemaryandThyme/Castinterviews/FelicityKendal/default.html |title=Felicity Kendal interview |publisher=ITV |date=13 July 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205104359/http://www.itv.com/Drama/family/RosemaryandThyme/Castinterviews/FelicityKendal/default.html |archive-date= 5 February 2010 }}</ref> The show was negatively reviewed, but still popular with viewers, becoming the most viewed new drama series on [[ITV1]] in 2006.<ref name="MENRT"/> Vahimagi wrote that despite "pleasantly skittish performances" from the leads, the show was a "peculiarly dispiriting addition to the list of British detective drama".<ref name="BFIS">{{cite web |first=Tise |last=Vahimagi |title=Kendal, Felicity (1946–) |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/564209/ |website=BFI ScreenOnline |access-date=14 April 2024 |archive-date=16 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416111124/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/564209/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Stage work==
Kendal auditioned unsuccessfully for [[Val May]] at the [[Bristol Old Vic]] in early 1966.{{sfn|Nadel|2004|p=317}} Some months later, she auditioned for Tynan and [[Laurence Olivier]] [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] season at the [[Old Vic]], again without success.{{sfn|Nadel|2004|p=317}} She made her London stage debut in ''Minor Murder'' (1967) at the [[Savoy Theatre]].{{sfn|Webber|2001|p=110}}<ref name="MIDB">{{cite news |last=Wardle |first=Irving |author-link=Irving Wardle |title=Middlebrow angle on corruption |newspaper=The Times |date=26 July 1967 |page=6}}</ref> Kendal and [[Tessa Wyatt]] played two friends who murdered the mother of one of them, in a play inspired by the [[Parker–Hulme murder case]].<ref name="MIDB"/> She was cast as Amaryllis in the 1969 production of ''[[Back to Methuselah]]'' at the Old Vic.<ref name="MORLEY82"/><ref name="B2M">{{cite web |title=Felicity Kendal |url=https://catalogue.nationaltheatre.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Roles&id=ROLE126647 |website=National Theatre Archive |access-date=17 April 2024 |archive-date=17 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417215037/https://catalogue.nationaltheatre.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Roles&id=ROLE126647 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1972, actors [[Ian McKellen]] and [[Edward Petherbridge]], after discussion with director [[David William]], formed the Actors' Company, a collective group with members invited by them.{{sfn|Gibson|1986|p=74}} The actors would all receive equal pay and would rotate between leading and supporting roles, with posters listing their names in alphabetical order.{{sfn|Gibson|1986|p=75-77}} The founding members were  [[Caroline Blakiston]], Marian Diamond, [[Robert Eddison]], [[Robin Ellis]], [[Tenniel Evans]], Kendal, Matthew Long, [[Margery Mason]], McKellen, [[Frank Middlemass]], [[John Moreno|Juan Moreno]], Petherbridge, [[Moira Redmond]], [[Sheila Reid]], [[Jack Shepherd (actor)|Jack Shepherd]], [[Ronnie Stevens (actor)|Ronnie Stevens]] and [[John Tordoff]].{{sfn|Gibson|1986|p=77}} As part of the company, Kendal played The Maid in ''[[Le Dindon|Ruling the Roost]]'', and Annabella in  ''[['Tis Pity She's a Whore]]'' at the 1972 [[Edinburgh International Festival]].{{sfn|Johns|1973|p=176, 191}} Kendal had departed to look after her new baby by the time the group reconvened in mid-1973.{{sfn|Barratt|2005|p=76}}

Kendal won the [[Variety Club]]'s Best Stage Actress Award for her performance as Marain in [[Michael Frayn]]'s ''Clouds'' (1978) at the [[Duke of York's Theatre]], London.<ref name="GALE"/><ref name="DFEVITA">{{cite news |last=Edward |first=Sydney |title=Double for Evita |newspaper=Evening Standard |page=1 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-double-for-evita/145563265/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=17 April 2024 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420121845/https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/?next_url=/ezproxy/r/ezp.2aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmV3c3BhcGVycy5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZS9ldmVuaW5nLXN0YW5kYXJkLWRvdWJsZS1mb3ItZXZpdGEvMTQ1NTYzMjY1Lw-- |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1979 she was directed by [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]] for the first time, as Constanze Mozart in ''[[Amadeus (play)|Amadeus]]''.<ref name="REESM"/> She later recounted that her experience in the production "taught me to focus on the play rather than the role".<ref>{{cite news |last=Tims |first=Anna |title=How we made: Peter Shaffer and Felicity Kendal on Amadeus |newspaper=The Guardian |date=14 January 2013 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/jan/14/how-we-made-amadeus |access-date=18 April 2024 |archive-date=12 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312112843/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/jan/14/how-we-made-amadeus |url-status=live }}</ref> A recording with the original cast was broadcast on [[BBC Radio 3]] in 1983.<ref>{{cite web |title=Drama on 3: Amadeus |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wwm26#synopsis |work=BBC Radio 3 |year=2011 |access-date=14 April 2024 |archive-date=8 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108172853/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wwm26#synopsis |url-status=live }}</ref> Her stage career blossomed during the 1980s and 1990s when she formed a close professional association with [[Tom Stoppard]],<ref name="REESM"/> starring in the first productions of many of his plays, including ''[[On the Razzle (play)|On the Razzle]]'' (1981), ''[[The Real Thing (play)|The Real Thing]]'' (1982), ''[[Hapgood (play)|Hapgood]]'' (1988), and ''[[Arcadia (play)|Arcadia]]'' (1993).{{sfn|Delaney|2001|pages=5–8}}{{sfn|Delaney|2001a|page=33}} The Stoppard scholar Paul Delaney wrote in 1990 that Kendal "first dazzled Stoppard audiences" in ''On the Razzle'', and made Annie in ''The Real Thing'' a "poignant role".{{sfn|Delaney|1990|p=135}} He felt that in ''Hapgood'', Kendal gave a "towering performance in the most complex role Stoppard has ever written for a woman."{{sfn|Delaney|1990|p=135}} In his 2002 biography of Stoppard, [[Ira Nadel]] remarked that "Hannah Jarvis in ''Arcadia'' is, perhaps, the quintessential Kendal role: energetic, inquisitive, strong and possessed with a touch of ''The Good Life'''s vibrant celebration of nature."{{sfn|Nadel|2004|p=319}}

Kendal and Stoppard started a romantic relationship that lasted for eight years from around November 1990.{{sfn|Delaney|2001a|page=33}} His radio play ''[[In the Native State]]'' (1991) had a dedication "To Felicity Kendal", and, according to Delaney, it "seemed in some ways to be not only for and by but also about Kendal".{{sfn|Delaney|2001a|page=33}} It was adapted for the stage as ''[[Indian Ink]]'' (1995) and both versions starred Kendal as Flora Crewe, a poet who moves to India and develops a friendship with an artist played by [[Art Malik]] who paints her portrait.<ref name="CSII">{{cite news |last=Spencer |first=Charles |author-link=Charles Spencer (journalist) |title=Stoppard in the heart of India |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=1 March 1995 |page=21 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/751813542/?match=1&clipping_id=145462045 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=16 April 2024 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420121718/https://www.newspapers.com/image/751813542/?match=1&clipping_id=145462045 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' critic [[Charles Spencer (journalist)|Charles Spencer]] found Kendal's performance by turns "funny, mischievous" and "exceptionally touching".<ref name="CSII"/> Stoppard also made a new translation of ''[[The Seagull]]'' by [[Anton Chekhov]] specifically so that Kendal could play Madame Arkadina (1997).{{sfn|Delaney|2021|p=541}}

She won the [[Evening Standard Theatre Awards|''Evening Standard'' Theatre Award]] in 1989 for her performances in ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' and ''[[Ivanov (play)|Ivanov]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=The awards in full |newspaper=Evening Standard |date=14 November 1989 |page=3 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-the-awards-in-full/145563753/ |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Gerard van Werson of ''The Stage'' wrote that as [[Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing)|Beatrice]] in ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'', Kendal "delights{{nbsp}}... with her remarkable charm and her beautiful comic timing".<ref name="MADO89"/>
	
The critic [[Sheridan Morley]] felt that Kendal was  "rapidly becoming out most expert player of classic [[farce]]" after seeing her in ''[[Occupe-toi d'Amélie!|Mind Millie for Me]]'', an adaptation of a [[Georges Feydeau]] farce at the  [[Theatre Royal Haymarket]], London in 1996.<ref>{{cite news |last=Morley |first=Sheridan |author-link=Sheridan Morley |title='Nuremberg Trial' Avoids the Histrionics |newspaper=International Herald Tribune |date=15 May 1996 |page=13}}</ref> Later that year, Geoff Chapman of the ''[[Toronto Star]]'' described Kendal as "once a television sitcom star but now a huge West End draw in serious parts".<ref>{{cite news |first=Geoff |last=Chapman |title=London's Old Vic lands major actors |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=29 November 1996 |page=D.13}}</ref>

Her 2003 performance as Winnie in ''[[Happy Days (play)|Happy Days]]'' by [[Samuel Beckett]] was acclaimed by ''The Guardian''{{'}}s [[Michael Billington (critic)|Michael Billington]], who praised Kendal for bringing a "genuine emotional reality" to the role.<ref name="HDAYS"/> She starred as Esme in the West End revival of ''[[Amy's View]]'' (2006) by [[David Hare (playwright)|David Hare]], which was her tenth collaboration with director [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]].<ref name="REESM"/> Hall's "sensitive direction" allowed Kendal to "resoundingly [achieve] both Esme's barbed humour and her sadness" according to Heather Neil of ''The Stage''.<ref name="AMY"/> She appeared in the West End as Florence Lancaster in [[Noël Coward]]'s play ''[[The Vortex]]'' in 2008.<ref name="VORTEX">{{cite magazine |last=Benedict |first=David |title=The Vortex |magazine=Variety |volume=410 |number=3 |date=3 March 2008 |page=42}}</ref> In ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', David Benedict felt that "playing her as a woman who overacts strains Kendal's ability to reveal truthful emotion in the final act".<ref name="VORTEX"/>

In 2013, she starred in the first London revival of ''[[Relatively Speaking (1965 play)|Relatively Speaking]]'' by [[Alan Ayckbourn]] at [[Wyndham's Theatre]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Spencer |first=Charles |author-link=Charles Spencer (journalist) |date=21 May 2013 |title=''Relatively Speaking'', Wyndham's Theatre, review |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/10068500/Relatively-Speaking-Wyndhams-Theatre-review.html |access-date=4 April 2018 |archive-date=18 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618072640/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/10068500/Relatively-Speaking-Wyndhams-Theatre-review.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Later that year, she toured the UK with [[Simon Callow]] in ''Chin-Chin'', an English translation by [[Willis Hall]] of Francois Billetdoux's ''[[Tchin-Tchin]]''.<ref name="CHIN">{{cite magazine |last=Shenton |first=Mark |author-link=Mark Shenton |date=16 July 2013 |title=Felicity Kendal and Simon Callow to Star in U.K. Tour of Classic Comedy ''Chin-Chin'' |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/felicity-kendal-and-simon-callow-to-star-in-u.k.-tour-of-classic-comedy-chi-207571 |magazine=[[Playbill (magazine)|Playbill]] |access-date=24 October 2014 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221724/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/felicity-kendal-and-simon-callow-to-star-in-u.k.-tour-of-classic-comedy-chi-207571 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She toured the UK and Australia as Judith Bliss in Noël Coward's ''[[Hay Fever (play)|Hay Fever]]'', which then played in the West End in 2015.<ref>{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Billington (critic)|author-link=Michael Billington (critic) |title=Hay Fever review – hysteria rules as Felicity Kendal does Coward |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/aug/27/hay-fever-review-noel-coward-felicity-kendal |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=28 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020035016/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/aug/27/hay-fever-review-noel-coward-felicity-kendal |archive-date=20 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2014/10/08/4102694.htm |title=Win tickets to Noel Coward's Hay Fever! |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141120142839/http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2014/10/08/4102694.htm |archive-date=20 November 2014 |website=[[774 ABC Melbourne]] |date=8 October 2014}}</ref>

She took her first role in a [[Musical theatre|musical]] as Evangeline Harcourt in the 2021 London revival of ''[[Anything Goes]]'' at the [[Barbican Theatre]].<ref name="ANYGOES">{{cite web|last=Gans|first=Andrew|date=4 August 2021|title=Sutton Foster Is Reno Sweeney in London's Anything Goes, Opening August 4 at the Barbican|url=https://www.playbill.com/article/sutton-foster-is-reno-sweeney-in-londons-anything-goes-opening-august-4-at-the-barbican|access-date=25 September 2021|website=Playbill|archive-date=2 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102235951/https://www.playbill.com/article/sutton-foster-is-reno-sweeney-in-londons-anything-goes-opening-august-4-at-the-barbican|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Saturday Live: Felicity Kendal and Ore Oduba |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xdff |date=25 June 2012 }}</ref> In 2023, Kendal starred as Dotty Otley in ''[[Noises Off]]'' at the [[Phoenix Theatre, London|Phoenix Theatre]] and the [[Theatre Royal Haymarket]].<ref name="NOFF"/> ''The Daily Telegraph'' reviewer Marianka Swain felt that Kendal was "more brilliant than ever" in the role.<ref>{{cite news |last=Swain |first=Marianka |date=20 October 2023 |title= Noises off: Michael Frayn's masterpiece remains unmatched for laugh-til-you-weep hilarity |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/noises-off-theatre-royal-haymarket-review/ |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==Other work==
On the album ''[[Shape Up and Dance|Shape Up and Dance with Felicity Kendal]]'' (1982), Kendal narrated a keep-fit routine based around yoga and ballet.{{sfn|Nadel|2004|p=319}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Untitled |newspaper=Nottingham Recorder |date=1 April 1982 |page=10 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/nottingham-recorder-shape-up/145503559/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=17 April 2024 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420122328/https://www.newspapers.com/article/nottingham-recorder-shape-up/145503559/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It spent 13 weeks in the top 40 of the [[UK Albums Chart]], peaking at number 29 in 1983,<ref>{{cite web |title=Shape Up and Dance with Felicity Kendal (Volume One) |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/albums/felicity-kendal-shape-up-and-dance-volume-1/ |website=Official Chart Company |access-date=17 April 2024 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420122230/https://www.officialcharts.com/albums/felicity-kendal-shape-up-and-dance-volume-1/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and went on to sell over 200,000 copies.{{sfn|Nadel|2004|p=319}}

In 1995, Kendal was one of the readers of [[Edward Lear]] poems on a spoken-word CD bringing together a collection of Lear's nonsense songs.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://libcat.calacademy.org/title/nonsense-songs/oclc/426445707#details-allauthors |title=Nonsense songs (Audiobook on CD, 1995) [WorldCat.org&#93; |publisher=Libcat.calacademy.org |date=4 January 2019 |isbn=978-1-898608-21-9 |accessdate=16 March 2021 |archive-date=15 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215193405/http://libcat.calacademy.org/title/nonsense-songs/oclc/426445707#details-allauthors |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Personal life==
Kendal's first marriage to [[Drewe Henley]] (1968–1979) and her second to [[Michael Rudman]] (1983–1991) ended in divorce.<ref name="GALE"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Good life split for Felicity |newspaper=Daily Record |date=1 March 1991 |page=17 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-record-good-life-split-for-felicit/145660916/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=19 April 2024 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420122237/https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/?next_url=/ezproxy/r/ezp.2aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmV3c3BhcGVycy5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZS9kYWlseS1yZWNvcmQtZ29vZC1saWZlLXNwbGl0LWZvci1mZWxpY2l0LzE0NTY2MDkxNi8- |url-status=live }}</ref> Kendal has two sons, including [[Charley Henley|Charley]].<ref name="GALE"/> She reunited with Rudman in 1998,<ref name="Telegraph"/> and they remained partners until he died on 30 March 2023.<ref>{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Coveney |newspaper=The Guardian |date=30 March 2023 |title=Michael Rudman obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/mar/30/michael-rudman-obituary |access-date=19 April 2024 |archive-date=26 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230726124709/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/mar/30/michael-rudman-obituary |url-status=live }}</ref>

Kendal was brought up in the Catholic faith. She [[Conversion to Judaism|converted]] to [[Judaism]] at the time of her second marriage, but has said about the conversion, "I felt I was returning to my roots."<ref name="JC October 2010">{{cite news |title=Felicity Kendal's good (Jewish) life |url=http://website.thejc.com/home.aspx?AId=46954&ATypeId=1&search=true2&srchstr=+%2B%22felicity+kendal%2B%22&srchtxt=0&srchhead=1&srchauthor=0&srchsandp=0&scsrch=0|newspaper=[[The Jewish Chronicle]] |last=Garvey|first=Anne|date=26 October 2006 |access-date=15 December 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052106/http://website.thejc.com/home.aspx?AId=46954&ATypeId=1&search=true2&srchstr=++%22felicity+kendal+%22&srchtxt=0&srchhead=1&srchauthor=0&srchsandp=0&scsrch=0|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> Her conversion took more than three years; she has stated that her decision to convert had "nothing to do" with her husband.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saga.co.uk/saga-magazine/2013/april/felicity-kendal.aspx|title=Felicity Kendal interview with Saga Magazine|work=saga.co.uk|access-date=15 November 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024152056/http://www.saga.co.uk/saga-magazine/2013/april/felicity-kendal.aspx|archive-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> Kendal's memoirs, titled ''White Cargo'', were published in 1998.{{sfn|Kendal|1998}}

In 1981, Kendal was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[1995 New Year Honours]] for services to drama.<ref name="BBC SCD 2010" /><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=53893 |date=30 December 1994|page=9 |supp=y}}</ref> She is an ambassador for the charity [[Royal Voluntary Service]], previously known as WRVS.<ref>[http://www.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk/about-us/our-ambassadors/felicity-kendal "Our Ambassadors: Felicity Kendal CBE"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412023158/https://www.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk/about-us/our-ambassadors/felicity-kendal |date=12 April 2019 }}, Royal Voluntary Service, Cardiff. Retrieved 11 April 2019.</ref>

==Selected filmography==
===Theatre===
Kendal's first two stage appearances were for her family's company, in England.{{sfn|Nadel|2004|pages=315–316}} Having played a changeling boy in ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' when she was nine months old, she was the Changeling in the same play five years later.{{sfn|Nadel|2004|pages=315–316}} After the company returned to Asia, her roles included Macduff's son in ''[[Macbeth]]'', [[Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Puck]] in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', Jessica in ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', [[Ophelia]] in ''[[Hamlet]]'', and Viola in ''[[Twelfth Night]]''.{{sfn|Nadel|2004|pages=315–316}}{{sfn|Roisman Cooper|2015|p=207}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col"|Year
! scope="col"|Title
! scope="col"|Role
! scope="col" class="unsortable"| Venue
! scope="col" class="unsortable"| {{Ref heading}}
|-
| 1967 ||  ''Minor Murder'' || Carla ||  [[Savoy Theatre]], London || {{sfn|Webber|2001|p=110}}<ref name="MIDB"/>
|-
| 1968 ||  ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'' || Katherine ||  [[Sue Townsend Theatre|Phoenix Theatre]], Leicester ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1968 ||  ''[[The Promise (1965 play)|The Promise]]'' || Lika ||  Phoenix Theatre, Leicester ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1969 ||  ''[[Back to Methuselah|Back to Methuselah, Part II]]'' || Amaryllis ||  National Theatre Company, [[The Old Vic]], London ||<ref name="B2M"/>
|-
| 1970 ||  ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' || Hermia ||  [[Regent's Park Open Air Theatre]], London ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1970 ||  ''[[Much Ado about Nothing]]'' || Hero ||  Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1970 || ''The Lord Byron Show''   || || Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London  ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1970–71 ||  ''[[Kean (play)|Kean]]'' || Anne Danby ||  [[Oxford Playhouse]]/[[Gielgud Theatre|Globe Theatre]], London ||<ref>{{cite news |title=Kean coming to the Globe Theatre |newspaper=The Times |date=9 January 1971 |page=17 }}</ref>
|-
| 1972 ||  ''[[Le Dindon|Ruling the Roost]]'' || The Maid ||  Billingham Forum Theatre/[[Edinburgh International Festival]] || {{sfn|Johns|1973|p=176}}
|-
| 1972 ||  ''[['Tis Pity She's a Whore]]'' || Annabella ||  Edinburgh International Festival ||{{sfn|Johns|1973|p=191}}
|-
| 1972 || ''The Three Arrows'' || || [[Cambridge Arts Theatre]] ||<ref name="GALE"/>{{sfn|Johns|1973|p=188}}
|-
| 1972 ||  ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' || Juliet ||  Oxford Playhouse ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1973 || ''Friends, Romans and Lovers'' || Alison Ames || [[Yvonne Arnaud Theatre]], Guildford || {{sfn|Johns|1973|p=124}}
|-
| 1974 || ''[[The Norman Conquests]]'' || Annie ||  [[Greenwich Theatre]]/Globe Theatre, London ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1976 ||  ''Once Upon a Time'' || Vitoshka ||  Little Theatre, Bristol ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1978 ||  ''Clouds'' || Mara ||  [[Duke of York's Theatre]], London ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1978 ||  ''[[Arms and the Man]]'' || Raina ||  Greenwich Theatre, London ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1979 ||  ''[[Amadeus (play)|Amadeus]]'' || Constanze ||  [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]], London ||<ref name="REESM"/>
|-
| 1980 ||  ''[[Othello (play)|Othello]]'' || Desdemona ||  National Theatre, London ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1981–82 ||  ''[[On the Razzle (play)|On the Razzle]]'' || Christopher ||  National Theatre, London ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1981–82 ||  ''[[The Second Mrs Tanqueray]]'' || Paula ||  National Theatre, London ||<ref>{{cite news |last=Huckerby |first=Martin |title=Return of the third dimension |newspaper=The Times |date=18 September 1981 |page=P.II }}</ref>
|-
| 1982–83 ||  ''[[The Real Thing (play)|The Real Thing]]'' || Annie ||  [[Novello Theatre|Strand Theatre]], London ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1985 ||  ''[[Jumpers (play)|Jumpers]]'' || Dorothy ||  [[Aldwych Theatre]], London ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1986 || ''[[Made in Bangkok]]'' || Frances ||  Aldwych Theatre, London ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1988 || ''[[Hapgood (play)|Hapgood]]'' || Hapgood ||  Aldwych Theatre, London ||<ref>{{cite news |last=Hepple |first=Peter |title=A quantum leap into darkness |newspaper=The Stage |date=17 March 1988 |page=15}}</ref>
|-
| 1989 ||  ''[[Ivanov (play)|Ivanov]]'' || Anna Ivanov || Strand Theatre, London ||<ref name="GALE"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Hepple |first=Peter |title=Strand: Ivanov |newspaper=The Stage |date=20 April 1989 |page=9}}</ref>
|-
| 1989 || ''[[Much Ado about Nothing]]'' || [[Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing)|Beatrice]] || Strand Theatre, London  ||<ref name="GALE"/><ref name="MADO89">{{cite news |last=van Werson |first=Gerard|title=Strand: Much Ado about Nothing |newspaper=The Stage |date=25 May 1989 |page=13}}</ref>
|-
| 1990 || ''Hidden Laughter'' ||  ||  [[Vaudeville Theatre]], London ||<ref>{{cite news |last=Kingston |first=Jeremy |title=Nightmares and nicotine |newspaper=The Times |date=7 June 1990 |page=18}}</ref>
|-
| 1991 || ''[[Tartuffe]]'' || Ariade Utterword ||  [[Theatre Royal Haymarket]], London ||<ref>{{cite news |title=Today's Events |newspaper=The Times |date=14 October 1991 |page=18}}</ref>
|-
| 1992 || ''[[Heartbreak House]]'' ||  ||  Theatre Royal Haymarket, London  ||<ref>{{cite news |last=Spencer |first=Charles |title=Heartfelt heartbreak |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=21 March 1992 |page=61 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-heartfelt-heartbreak/145596155/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=18 April 2024 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420122232/https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/?next_url=/ezproxy/r/ezp.2aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmV3c3BhcGVycy5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZS90aGUtZGFpbHktdGVsZWdyYXBoLWhlYXJ0ZmVsdC1oZWFydGJyZWFrLzE0NTU5NjE1NS8- |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1993 ||  ''[[Arcadia (play)|Arcadia]]'' || Hannah Jarvis ||  National Theatre, London ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1994 || ''[[Le Dindon|An Absolute Turkey]]'' ||  || Globe Theatre, London ||<ref>{{cite news |last=Billington |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Billington (critic) |title=Turkey with French undressing |newspaper=The Guardian |date=6 January 1994 |page=9 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian-turkey-with-french-undressi/145596429/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=18 April 2024 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420122232/https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/?next_url=/ezproxy/r/ezp.2aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmV3c3BhcGVycy5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZS90aGUtZ3VhcmRpYW4tdHVya2V5LXdpdGgtZnJlbmNoLXVuZHJlc3NpLzE0NTU5NjQyOS8- |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1995 || ''[[Indian Ink]]'' || Flora Crewe ||  Aldwych Theatre, London ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1996 || ''[[Occupe-toi d'Amélie!|Mind Millie for Me]]'' ||  || Theatre Royal Haymarket, London ||<ref>{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Coveney |title=Obituart: Robert Lang |newspaper=The Guardian |date=11 November 2004 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/nov/11/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries |access-date=18 April 2024 |archive-date=18 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418151453/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/nov/11/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1997 || ''[[The Seagull]]'' || Madame Arkadina || The Old Vic, London ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1997 || ''[[Waste (play)|Waste]]'' || Amy O'Connell || The Old Vic, London ||<ref>{{cite news |last=Nightingale |first=Benedict |title=Yes, minister |newspaper=The Times |date=15 March 1997 |page=23}}</ref>
|-
| 1998 || ''Alarms and Excursions'' ||  || [[Gielgud Theatre]], London ||<ref>{{cite news |last=Butler |first=Robert |title=It's a complete farce |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/it-s-a-complete-farce-1199392.html |newspaper=The Independent |date=19 September 1998 |access-date=18 April 2024 |archive-date=18 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418150622/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/it-s-a-complete-farce-1199392.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2000 || ''[[Fallen Angels (play)|Fallen Angels]]'' || Julia ||  [[Apollo Theatre]], London||<ref>{{cite news |last=Nightingale |first=Benedict |title=Whines and spirits |newspaper=The Times |date=27 October 2000 |page=17[S]}}</ref>
|-
| 2002  || ''[[Humble Boy]]'' || Flora ||  Gielgud Theatre, London ||<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Wolf |first=Matt |title=Humble Boy (Follow up) |magazine=Variety |volume=385 |number=12 |date=11 February 2002 |page=50}}</ref>
|-
| 2003 || ''[[Happy Days (play)|Happy Days]]'' || Winnie || [[Arts Theatre]], London ||<ref name="HDAYS">{{cite news | last=Billington | first=Michael | author-link=Michael Billington (critic) | url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/nov/19/theatre4 | title=Happy Days – Arts, London | newspaper=The Guardian | date=19 November 2003 | access-date=18 April 2024 | archive-date=13 October 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013043306/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/nov/19/theatre4 | url-status=live }}</ref> 
|-
| 2006 || ''[[Amy's View]]'' || Esme || [[Garrick Theatre]], London ||<ref name="AMY">{{cite news |last=Neill |first=Heather |title=A lesson in maturity |newspaper=The Stage |date=30 November 2006 |page=19}}</ref>
|-
| 2008 || ''[[The Vortex]]'' || Florence || Apollo Theatre, London ||<ref name="VORTEX"/>
|-
| 2009 || ''The Last Cigarette'' || Simon Gray || [[Chichester Festival Theatre]]/[[Trafalgar Theatre|Trafalgar Studios]], London ||<ref>{{cite news |last=Walker |first=Tim |title=No smoke without fire for Felicity Kendal |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=29 April 2009 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/5245199/No-smoke-without-fire-for-Felicity-Kendal.html |access-date=18 April 2024 |archive-date=18 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418150624/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/5245199/No-smoke-without-fire-for-Felicity-Kendal.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2010 || ''[[Mrs. Warren's Profession]]'' || Mrs. Warren  || [[Harold Pinter Theatre|Comedy Theatre]], London ||<ref>{{cite news | last=Spencer | first=Charles | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/7528927/Mrs-Warrens-Profession-at-the-Comedy-Theatre-review.html | title=Mrs Warren's Profession at the Comedy Theatre, review | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph | date=26 March 2010 | access-date=18 April 2024 | archive-date=18 April 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418153610/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/7528927/Mrs-Warrens-Profession-at-the-Comedy-Theatre-review.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2013 || ''[[Relatively Speaking (1965 play)|Relatively Speaking]]'' || Sheila || [[Wyndham's Theatre]], London ||<ref name="FKUA"/><ref>{{cite news | last=Billington | first=Michael | author-link=Michael Billington (critic) | url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/may/20/relatively-speaking-review | title=Relatively Speaking – review | newspaper=The Guardian | date=20 May 2013 | access-date=18 April 2024 | archive-date=11 November 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111191534/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/may/20/relatively-speaking-review | url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2013 || ''[[Tchin-Tchin|Chin Chin]]'' || Pamela Pusey-Picq || Touring ||<ref name="CHIN"/>
|-
| 2015 || ''[[Hay Fever (play)|Hay Fever]]'' || Judith Bliss || Duke of York's Theatre, London ||<ref name="FKUA"/><ref>{{cite news | last=Billington | first=Michael | author-link=Michael Billington (critic) | url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/aug/27/hay-fever-review-noel-coward-felicity-kendal | title=Hay Fever review – hysteria rules as Felicity Kendal does Coward | newspaper=The Guardian | date=27 August 2014 | access-date=14 December 2016 | archive-date=20 October 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020035016/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/aug/27/hay-fever-review-noel-coward-felicity-kendal | url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2016 || ''[[A Room with a View]]'' || Charlotte Bartlett || [[Theatre Royal, Bath]] ||<ref name="FKUA"/><ref>{{cite news | last=Billington | first=Michael | author-link=Michael Billington (critic) | url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/oct/07/a-room-with-a-view-review-felicity-kendal-em-forster-theatre-royal-bath | title=A Room With a View review – Felicity Kendal's star power obscures Forster's story | newspaper=The Guardian | date=7 October 2016 | access-date=18 April 2024 | archive-date=18 April 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418153610/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/oct/07/a-room-with-a-view-review-felicity-kendal-em-forster-theatre-royal-bath | url-status=live }}</ref> 
|-
| 2017 || ''[[Lettice and Lovage]]'' || Lettice Douffet || [[Menier Chocolate Factory]], London ||<ref name="FKUA"/><ref>{{cite news | last=Sheahan | first=Susan | url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/may/21/lettice-and-lovage-review-felicity-kendal-maureen-lipman | title=Lettice and Lovage review – Felicity Kendal and Maureen Lipman shine | newspaper=The Guardian | date=21 May 2017 | access-date=18 April 2024 | archive-date=18 April 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418153604/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/may/21/lettice-and-lovage-review-felicity-kendal-maureen-lipman | url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2019 || ''[[The Argument (play)|The Argument]]'' || Chloe || Theatre Royal, Bath ||<ref name="FKUA"/><ref>{{cite news | last=Billington | first=Michael | author-link=Michael Billington (critic) | url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/aug/14/the-argument-review-no-winners-in-william-boyds-couple-at-war | title=The Argument review – no winners emerge from William Boyd's couple at war | newspaper=The Guardian | date=14 August 2019 | access-date=18 April 2024 | archive-date=18 April 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418153610/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/aug/14/the-argument-review-no-winners-in-william-boyds-couple-at-war | url-status=live }}</ref> 
|-
| 2021 || ''[[Anything Goes]]'' || Evangeline Harcourt || [[Barbican Theatre]], London ||<ref name="ANYGOES"/>
|-
| 2023 || ''[[Noises Off]]'' || Dotty Otley || [[Phoenix Theatre, London|Phoenix Theatre]]/[[Theatre Royal Haymarket]], London ||<ref name="NOFF">{{cite magazine |last=Gans |first=Andrew |title=40th Anniversary Tour of Noises Off, Starring Felicity Kendal, Sets West End Return |date=19 July 2023 |url=https://playbill.com/article/40th-anniversary-tour-of-noises-off-starring-felicity-kendal-sets-west-end-return |magazine=Playbill |access-date=18 April 2024 |archive-date=5 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205221214/https://www.playbill.com/article/40th-anniversary-tour-of-noises-off-starring-felicity-kendal-sets-west-end-return |url-status=live }}</ref>
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col"| Year
! scope="col"| Title
! scope="col"| Role
! scope="col" class="unsortable"| Notes
! scope="col" class="unsortable" |{{Ref heading}}
|-
| 1966 ||  ''Love Story'' || The Turkish Cypriot girl || episode "Another Name from Nowhere" ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1966 ||  ''Love Story'' || Jenny ||  episode "A Toy Soldier" ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1966 || ''[[The Wednesday Play]]'' || The girl || episode "The May Fly and the Frog" ||<ref name="BBCG"/>
|- 
| 1967 ||  ''[[ITV Play of the Week]]'' || Beth Gray || episode "Person Unknown" ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1967 ||  ''Boy Meets Girl''|| Mina ||  episode "Love with a Few Hairs" ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1967 || ''[[Thirty-Minute Theatre]]'' || La Principessa || episode "Come Death" ||<ref name="BBCG">{{cite web |title=Search results for 'Felicity Kendal' |website=BBC Programme Archive |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=first&q=%22felicity+kendal%22 |access-date=15 April 2024 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420122252/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=first&q=%22felicity+kendal%22 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1967 || ''[[Man in a Suitcase]]''|| Marcelle || episode "Blind Spot" ||<ref name="GALE"/><ref name="FKUA">{{cite web |title=Felicity Kendal |website=United Agents |url=https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/felicity-kendal |access-date=15 April 2024 |archive-date=15 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815165131/https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/felicity-kendal |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1967 ||  ''Half Hour Story''  || Candy ||  episode "Gone and Never Called Me Mother" ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1978 || ''The Easter Play: [[Easter (play)|Strindberg's Easter]]''|| Eleonora || ||<ref name="BBCG"/>
|-
|  1968–69 || ''[[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1968 TV series)|The Tenant of Wildfell Hall]]'' || Rose ||  ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1970 ||  ''[[The Woodlanders (1970 TV series)|The Woodlanders]]'' || Grace Melbury ||  ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1972 ||  ''[[Jason King (TV series)|Jason King]]'' || Toki ||  episode "Toki" ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1973 ||  ''Dolly''  || Dolly ||  episodes "The House Opposite", "A Life Subscription", "The Other Lady" ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1975 ||  ''[[Edward the Seventh]]''{{efn|also known as ''Edward the King'' and ''The Royal Victorians''}} || [[Princess Vicky]] ||  ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1975–78 ||  ''[[The Good Life (1975 TV series)|The Good Life]]'' || Barbara Good ||   ||<ref name="BFIGL"/>
|-
| 1976 || ''[[Call My Bluff]]'' || panelist || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1976 || ''Going for a Song'' ||  ||  ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1976 ||  ''[[ITV Sunday Night Drama]]''|| Nicola || episode "Now Is Too Late"||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1976 ||  ''Murder'' || Jane ||  episode "A Variety of Passion" ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1977 || ''Night of 100 Stars'' ||  ||  ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1978 || ''A Play for Love'' || Cressida Bell || episode "The Marriage Counsellor" ||<ref name="11YP">{{cite news |title=Eleven Yorkshire plays on Sunday night |newspaper=The Stage |date=16 March 1978 |page=28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The marriage trap |newspaper=Manchester Evening News |date=8 April 1978 |page=42}}</ref>
|-
| 1978 ||  ''[[ITV Playhouse]]''|| Victoria ||  episode "Home and Beauty" ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1978 ||  ''Clouds of Glory'' || Dorothy Wordsworth || episodes "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "William and Dorothy" ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1980 ||  ''[[Twelfth Night (1980 film)|Twelfth Night]]'' || Viola ||  ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1981 ||  ''[[Friday Night, Saturday Morning]]''  || Guest ||  ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1981 || ''The Theatre Quiz'' ||  || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1981–82 ||  ''[[Solo (TV series)|Solo]]'' || Gemma Palmer ||  ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1984 || ''The Wandering Company''|| actress, ''[[Shakespeare Wallah]]'' || Documentary ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1985 and 1987 ||  ''[[The Mistress (TV series)|The Mistress]]'' || Maxine ||  ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1986 ||  ''[[Wogan]]'' || Guest host || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1986 ||  ''[[On the Razzle (film)|On the Razzle]]'' || Christopher ||  ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1992 ||  ''[[The Camomile Lawn (TV serial)|The Camomile Lawn]]'' || Helena || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1992 ||  ''[[Shakespeare: The Animated Tales#Romeo and Juliet|Shakespeare: The Animated Tales: Romeo and Juliet]]'' || Narrator || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1993 || ''The Full [[Ruby Wax|Wax]]'' ||  || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1994 ||  ''[[Honey for Tea]]'' || Nancy Belasco || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1995 ||  ''[[The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends]]'' || Voice of Hunca Munca ||  episode "The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse"||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1996 || ''[[French and Saunders]]'' ||  || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1998 || ''[[Clive Anderson]] All Talk''  ||  || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 1999 || ''[[Loose Women]]'' ||  || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 2000 ||  ''How Proust Can Change Your Life'' || Narrator || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 2001 ||  ''Funny Turns, Felicity Kendal: A Passage from India'' ||  || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 2001 || ''Top Ten: Sex Bombs''  ||  || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 2003 || ''[[Friday Night with Jonathan Ross]]'' ||  || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
|  2003–2006 ||  ''[[Rosemary & Thyme]]'' || Rosemary Boxer ||  ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 2005 || ''[[The South Bank Show]]'' ||  || episode "Peter Hall – 50 Years in Theatre: Part 2"||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 2006 || ''[[The Kumars at No. 42]]''  ||  || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 2006 || ''[[The Paul O'Grady Show]]''  ||  || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 2008 || ''[[Richard & Judy]]''  ||  || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 2008 || ''[[The Alan Titchmarsh Show]]''  ||  || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 2008 || ''[[Arena (British TV series)|Arena]]'' ||  || episode "Paul Scofield"||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 2008 || ''[[Doctor Who]]'' || Lady Clemency Eddison ||  episode "[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]"||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 2010 || [[Strictly Come Dancing (series 8)|''Strictly Come Dancing'' (series 8)]] || contestant || partnered with [[Vincent Simone]] ||<ref name="BBC SCD 2010"/>
|-
| 2010 || ''[[The ONE Show]]'' ||  || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 2010 || ''[[BBC Breakfast]]''  ||  || ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
| 2012 ||''Felicity Kendal's Indian Shakespeare Quest'' ||  || ||<ref name="SHAQ">{{cite news |last=Sutcliffe |first=Tom |title=Last Night's Viewing: Secret Eaters, Channel 4 Felicity Kendal's Indian Shakespeare Quest, BBC2 |date=16 May 2012 |newspaper=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-night-s-viewing-secret-eaters-channel-4-felicity-kendal-s-indian-shakespeare-quest-bbc2-7758178.html |access-date=15 April 2024 |archive-date=6 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706202927/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-night-s-viewing-secret-eaters-channel-4-felicity-kendal-s-indian-shakespeare-quest-bbc2-7758178.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2012 ||''[[Piers Morgan's Life Stories]]'' || guest || ||<ref name="PMLS">{{cite news |last=Singh |first=Anita |title=Felicity Kendal: Botox looks silly when you're 66, but tattoos are just fine |date=19 October 2012 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9618884/Felicity-Kendal-Botox-looks-silly-when-youre-66-but-tattoos-are-just-fine.html |access-date=15 April 2024 |archive-date=8 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231208103454/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9618884/Felicity-Kendal-Botox-looks-silly-when-youre-66-but-tattoos-are-just-fine.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2017 || ''[[Inside No.9]]'' || Patricia || episode "Private View" ||<ref>{{cite web |title=Felicity Kendal interview |website=British Comedy Guide |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/inside_no_9/interviews/felicity_kendal/ |date=19 March 2017}}</ref>
|-
| 2019 || ''[[Pennyworth (TV series)|Pennyworth]]'' || Baroness Ortsey || episode "Cilla Black" ||<ref>{{cite web |title=Pennyworth: Cilla Black |url=https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/cilla-black/umc.cmc.2f1coh1gausr8exq6kgujshz1?showId=umc.cmc.3ehqhyoc9wz64seco1cn0lyva |publisher=Apple TV | date=January 2018 |access-date=15 April 2024 |archive-date=16 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416111139/https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/cilla-black/umc.cmc.2f1coh1gausr8exq6kgujshz1?showId=umc.cmc.3ehqhyoc9wz64seco1cn0lyva |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2024
| ''[[Ludwig (2024 TV series)|Ludwig]]''
| Lady Camilla Bryce
| 1 episode
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Ludwig: Series 1 Episode 2 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022wzh |work=BBC |access-date=30 September 2024}}</ref>
|-
| 2024
| ''[[Rivals (TV series)|Rivals]]''
| Carole Miroy
| 1 episode
|
|}

===Film work===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col"|Year
! scope="col"|Title
! scope="col"|Role
! scope="col" class="unsortable"| Comments
! scope="col" class="unsortable"| {{Ref heading}}
|-
|1965 || ''[[Shakespeare Wallah]]'' ||Lizzie Buckingham||  ||<ref name="Merchant Ivory Shakespeare"/><ref name="GALE"/>
|-
|1977 || ''[[Valentino (1977 film)|Valentino]]'' || [[June Mathis]] ||  ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|-
|1993 || ''[[We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (film)|We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story]]'' ||Elsa (voice) || || <ref name="GALE"/>
|-
|1999 ||  ''[[Parting Shots]]'' (1999) ||Jill Saunders|| ||<ref name="GALE"/>
|}

==Awards==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Award
!Category
!Details
!Result
!{{Ref heading}}
|-
|1974 || [[Variety, the Children's Charity#Variety in UK|Variety Club]] || Most Promising Artiste || ''[[The Norman Conquests]]'' || {{won}} |||<ref>{{cite news |title=Show-biz awards: Variety Club's accolade |newspaper=The Stage |date=9 January 1975 |page=7}}</ref>
|-
|1979 || [[Variety, the Children's Charity#Variety in UK|Variety Club]] || Best Actress || Marain, ''Clouds'' || {{won}} ||| <ref name="DFEVITA"/>
|-
|1980 || [[Clarence Derwent Award]] || Best supporting actress|| Constanza Mozart, ''[[Amadeus (play)|Amadeus]]''|| {{won}} |||<ref>{{cite news |title=Reward for top support |newspaper=Evening Standard |date=3 March 1980 |page=6 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-reward-for-top-support/145354576/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=14 April 2024 |archive-date=16 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416111208/https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/?next_url=/ezproxy/r/ezp.2aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmV3c3BhcGVycy5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZS9ldmVuaW5nLXN0YW5kYXJkLXJld2FyZC1mb3ItdG9wLXN1cHBvcnQvMTQ1MzU0NTc2Lw-- |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|1984 || [[Variety, the Children's Charity#Variety in UK|Variety Club]] || Woman of the Year || || {{won}} |||<ref name="BFIS"/>
|-
|1984 || [[Variety, the Children's Charity#Variety in UK|Variety Club]] || Best Actress || || {{won}} |||<ref name="BFIS"/>
|-
|1989 || [[Evening Standard Theatre Awards|''Evening Standard'' Theatre Awards]] || Best Performance by an Actress  || ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' and ''[[Ivanov (play)|Ivanov]]'' || {{won}} |||<ref>{{cite news |title=Evening Standard Theatre Awards 1980–2003 |newspaper=Evening Standard |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/evening-standard-theatre-awards-19802003-7299246.html |date=5 November 2019 |access-date=14 April 2024 |archive-date=3 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240403040417/https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/evening-standard-theatre-awards-19802003-7299246.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|}
<!--Better source needed for the following:
=== Nominations ===
* 1978 – Gold Medal – Favorite Female Newcomer - [[Photoplay Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Photoplay Awards (1978) |url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000537/1978/1/ |access-date=9 March 2024 |publisher=IMDb |archive-date=13 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113103047/https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000537/1978/1/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1985 – Actress in a Comedy Series – [[CableACE Award]]s<ref>{{Cite web |title=CableACE Awards (1985) |url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000140/1985/1/ |access-date=9 March 2024 |publisher=IMDb |archive-date=9 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209065907/https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000140/1985/1/ |url-status=live }}</ref>-->

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

===Books and journal articles===
*{{cite book |last=Barratt |first=Mark |title=Ian McKellen: an Unauthorised Biography |year=2005 |location=London |publisher=Virgin |isbn=978-1-85227-251-7}}
*{{cite journal |author-last1=Bonner |author-first1=Frances |author-last2=Jacobs |author-first2=Jason |year=2017 |title=The persistence of television: The case of The Good Life |journal=Critical Studies in Television |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=6–20 |doi=10.1177/1749602016682751}}
*{{cite book |last=Delaney |first=Paul |title=Tom Stoppard: The Moral Vision of the Major Plays |location= |publisher=Macmillan |year=1990 |isbn=978-1-349-20603-2 |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-20603-2}}
*{{cite book |last=Delaney |first=Paul |chapter=Chronology |pages=1–9 |editor-last=Kelly |editor-first=Katherine E. |title=The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard |year=2001 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-64178-4}}
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160422060542/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba172ba9b Felicity Kendal] at the [[British Film Institute]]
*{{IMDb name|0447555}}
*{{British Comedy Guide|people|felicity_kendal}}

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