Actress Barbara Young with her 2004 portrait and Stephen B Whatley - 2009
© Stephen B Whatley
Artist Stephen B Whatley revisits actress Barbara Young at her home; 5 years after painting her portrait, pictured behind them ~ London, UK, January 4 , 2009.
Barbara Young is a prolific British character actress, active in the theatre and on television since 1961. She is best known for her glamorous and striking role as Agrippinilla- the future Emperor Nero's mother - in the 1976 BBC television drama series, "I, Claudius"; written by her acclaimed writer husband, Jack Pulman. The dramatic series also starred actress Sian Phillips CBE, whose portrait Stephen B Whatley painted in 1997.
The effervescent Barbara Young continues to perform on television - most recently in Britain's longest running, most popular soap opera, 'Coronation Street '(in 1981; then through 2007); and in the classic comedy series, set in rural Yorkshire, UK ( where Barbara Young was actually born), ' Last of The Summer Wine', filmed late 2008.
To view Barbara Young's portrait, photographed in her theatrically- decorated garden in London, please click the link:
Actress Barbara Young with her 2004 portrait and Stephen B Whatley - 2009
© Stephen B Whatley
Artist Stephen B Whatley revisits actress Barbara Young at her home; 5 years after painting her portrait, pictured behind them ~ London, UK, January 4 , 2009.
Barbara Young is a prolific British character actress, active in the theatre and on television since 1961. She is best known for her glamorous and striking role as Agrippinilla- the future Emperor Nero's mother - in the 1976 BBC television drama series, "I, Claudius"; written by her acclaimed writer husband, Jack Pulman. The dramatic series also starred actress Sian Phillips CBE, whose portrait Stephen B Whatley painted in 1997.
The effervescent Barbara Young continues to perform on television - most recently in Britain's longest running, most popular soap opera, 'Coronation Street '(in 1981; then through 2007); and in the classic comedy series, set in rural Yorkshire, UK ( where Barbara Young was actually born), ' Last of The Summer Wine', filmed late 2008.
To view Barbara Young's portrait, photographed in her theatrically- decorated garden in London, please click the link: