#actors studio and taking some non acting jobs. she was back in blighty by '72 (clearly) but her career had lost a little momentum; thus she
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Jacqueline Pearce guest stars as fashion model Leonie Peters, but it could be she's mixed up in bank robbery and murder in New Scotland Yard: The Banker (1.10, LWT, 1972)
#fave spotting#jacqueline pearce#new scotland yard#blakes 7#blake's 7#supreme commander servalan#the banker#1972#lwt#a very pleasant surprise!#coming in the middle of a fairly fallow period in Jac's career; she'd started strong‚ making a couple of films for Hammer and having notable#guest starring spots in shows like Man in a Suitcase (follow the fave spotting tag for a sight of her looking very glamorous and cute in#a pixie cut and designer dresses for that show) but after a bitter divorce she'd moved to the US for a while‚ training at Lee Strasberg's#actors studio and taking some non acting jobs. she was back in blighty by '72 (clearly) but her career had lost a little momentum; thus she#ended up with smaller supporting spots for a few years until B7 called and made her wonderfully immortal as the iconic Servalan#here she's ostensibly a model‚ but suspicions are raised when the owner of a fashion house is assassinated in broad daylight (and as one#woman police officer points out‚ rather uncharitably i thought‚ Jac is neither tall enough nor skinny enough to fit the typical#model form). cue some mystery biz‚ but it isn't really a top drawer episode‚ and Jac only has a couple of scenes to play with#she is‚ of course‚ captivating; it's her who makes the mystery really compelling‚ as her strange‚ frightened reactions draw the inevitable#questions about what's actually going on in this boutique salon. there was still a few years before the Supreme Commander would turn up#onscreen but Jac busied herself plugging away in guest spots and developing a respectable stage career
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