Chloë Annett


Chloë Victoria Annett is an English actress. She played Holly Turner in Crime Traveller and Kristine Kochanski in series 7 and 8 of the British sitcom Red Dwarf.

Biography

Early life and family

Annett was born and brought up in East Finchley in London, where she attended Mountview Theatre School. Originally, she was going to attend an art school but she went along with one of her friends who had an audition and got in. She reports that her parents were supportive of her career change and encouraged her.
Her father was director Paul Annett, who has directed a large number of episodes of the British soap opera EastEnders. Annett's father also directed some episodes of children's drama series Byker Grove, in some of which Annett appeared. Her brother, Jamie Annett, has also directed EastEnders. Her mother is actress and voice expert Margo Annett, author of An Actor's Guide to Auditions and Interviews, who works closely with Thelma Holt and the Cameron Mackintosh foundation. She was married to Alec McKinlay, the manager for the rock groups Oasis and Crowded House with whom she has three children.

Television

Annett has spent time in America, where she had a part in the 1992 TV miniseries Jewels. Back in Britain, most of her roles were bit parts, although she played the starring role of Holly Turner in Crime Traveller in 1997 alongside Michael French, who played Jeff Slade. In 1992, she played the part of Gertrude Winkworth in one episode of the Granada's series Jeeves and Wooster, based on the novels of P.G. Wodehouse, in which Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry starred. She also played Angela Mortimer, the great-niece of Mrs Pumphrey and the love interest of Tristan Farnon, in one episode of All Creatures Great and Small.
Annett played Kristine Kochanski in the seventh and eighth series of the British science fiction comedy television series Red Dwarf, a role which she reprised in the final part of the 2009 special, .
She won Best Actress at the April 2011 London Independent Film Festival.

Selected videography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1990FamiliesMina Sandaval
1990Inspector Wexford: An Unkindness of RavensJane Gardner
1990All Creatures Great and Small: HamperedAngela Mortimer
1991Doctor at the TopRebecca Stuart-Clark
1992SpatzDonna Edwards
1992Jeeves and Wooster: Bertie Takes Gussie's Place at Deverill HallGertrude Winkworth
1992Covington Cross: The PersecutionRachel
1992'Sarah Clutten
1992Jewels Isabelle
1993Yamada ga machi ni yatte kita Mary Fitzgibbon
1994Byker GroveJaney
1996Cadfael: The Devil's NoviceRosanna
1997Space Cadets: Vulcans vs. KlingonsHerself
1997Crime TravellerHolly Turner
1997Red Dwarf VIIKristine Kochanski
1998Can't Smeg Won't SmegKristine Kochanski
1998Universe ChallengeHerself
1998Red Dwarf A-ZHerself
1999Red Dwarf VIIIKristine Kochanski
2000Kiss Me KateSamEpisode: The Party
2000Pasty FacesLena
2000The AsylumRose
2002DoctorsJoanna HepworthEpisode: Stealing Booty
2004CasualtyLina RolesEpisode: Passions and Convictions
2004Comedy Connections: Red DwarfHerself
2009'Herself/Kristine Kochanski
2010LeilaLeila
2012CasualtyApril HalliwellEpisode: Hero Syndrome
2014Holby CityPat LangEpisode: No Apologies