Lynda La Plante.

Lynda La Plante was born Lynda Titchmarsh to working-class parents in Liverpool, England. She grew up with her parents, older brother, younger sister, and grandmother. At the age of sixteen she began training as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts before working with the National Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Under the name Lynda Marchal, she appeared as a regular on a number of popular television series in the United Kingdom between the late 1960’s and early 1980’s, including The Doctors (1969), Rentaghost (1976), Coming Home (1981), and Educating Marmelade (1981), as well as in the movie High Road to China (1983).