Caroline Harker is an English

England

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 stage

Stage (theatre)

In theatre or performance arts, the stage is a designated space for the performance productions. The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point for the members of the audience...

 and television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 actress, the sister of actress Susannah Harker

Susannah Harker

Susannah Harker is an English film, television, and theatre actor. She is the daughter of English actress Polly Adams and actor Richard Owens, and the great-niece of Gordon Adams. She was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award in 1990 for her role as Mattie Storin in House of Cards...

, and the daughter of actors Polly Adams

Polly Adams

Polly Adams is an English actress best known for her work on the stage both in England and in the United States, and for her portrayal of Mrs. Brown on the television series Just William. She made her Broadway debut in the critically acclaimed 1975 revival of London Assurance as Grace Harkaway...

 and Richard Owens. Harker is married to fellow actor Anthony Calf

Anthony Calf

Anthony Calf is a British actor, born in Hammersmith, London, England. He studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art . He has recurring roles in the television medical drama Holby City, as Michael Beauchamp, and New Tricks as Strickland...

, and is perhaps well-known for her roles as Celia in the BBC

BBC

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's Middlemarch

Middlemarch (1994 TV serial)

George Eliot's novel Middlemarch has been adapted for television twice. The most recent version in 1994 was directed by Anthony Page from a screenplay by Andrew Davies...

, and as WPC (later D.S) Hazel Wallace in the ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 police drama A Touch of Frost.

Caroline played the role of 'mother' in the Mike Kenny (writer)

Mike Kenny (writer)

Mike Kenny is a British playwright, most noted for his works in young people's theatre. His works include the 2008 adaptation of E Nesbit's The Railway Children at the National Railway Museum in York...

 adaptation of The Railway Children

The Railway Children

The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906...

 directed by Damian Cruden

Damian Cruden

-Career:Damian Cruden trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, 1982–1986. He then worked for the Tron Theatre and the TAG Theatre Company, and was tutor for the Scottish Youth Theatre. Moving to England, he became Co-artistic Director for the Liverpool Everyman Youth...

 staged at the Waterloo International railway station

Waterloo International railway station

Waterloo International station was the London terminus of the Eurostar international rail service from its opening on 14 November 1994 until 13 November 2007. It stands on the western side of Waterloo railway station, London...

.

Selected filmography

• Growing Richer, 1992
• Riders, 1993
• Middlemarch
  Middlemarch
  Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes...
  
  , 1994
• Honey for Tea
  Honey for Tea
  Honey for Tea is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 in 1994. Starring Felicity Kendal, it was written by Michael Aitkens. The series was poorly received at the time, receiving a particularly scathing review from Victor Lewis-Smith in the London Evening Standard.-Cast:*Felicity Kendal - Nancy...
  
  , 1994
• The Madness of King George
  The Madness of King George
  The Madness of King George is a 1994 film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own play, The Madness of George III. It tells the true story of George III's deteriorating mental health, and his equally declining relationship with his son, the Prince of Wales, particularly...
  
  , 1994
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, 1996
• Casualty
  Casualty (TV series)
  Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
  
  , 1990, 1997
• Holding On, 1997
• Keeping Mum
  Keeping Mum
  Keeping Mum is a 2005 British black comedy film starring Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith and Patrick Swayze.-Plot:In the opening scene, as pregnant young Rosie Jones rides on a train, her very large trunk starts leaking blood...
  
  , 1998
• Midsomer Murders
  Midsomer Murders
  Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...
  
  , 2002
• A Touch of Frost
  A Touch of Frost (TV series)
  A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....
  
  , 1992–2003
• Foyle's War
  Foyle's War
  Foyle's War is a British detective drama television series set during World War II, created by screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz, and was commissioned by ITV after the long-running series Inspector Morse came to an end in 2000. It has aired on ITV since 2002...
  
  , 2003
• Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
  Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
  Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a British comedy-drama television programme about seven English migrant construction workers. In the first series, the men live and work on a building site in Düsseldorf....
  
  , 2004
• Murder in Suburbia
  Murder in Suburbia
  Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005.-Plot summary:The series focused on various murders in the fictional suburban England town of Middleford; filming took place in North West London, including Northwood.-Regular cast and characters:-Episode...
  
  , 2004
• Lady Godiva: Back in the Saddle
  Lady Godiva: Back in the Saddle
  Lady Godiva: Back in the Saddle is a 2007 British comedy film directed by Baz Taylor and starring James Fleet, Caroline Harker and Phil Cornwell...
  
  (2007)
• New Tricks
  New Tricks
  New Tricks is a BBC television drama series which follows the work of the Metropolitan Police Service's Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad . Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes...
  
  (2011)

External links

• http://www.foyleswar.com/people/204/hardimanj.htm Caroline Harker on Foyle's War
• http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=7450 Caroline Harker's Filmography