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Esta Malka Charkham (born 29 March 1949) is a Country television and film producer unacceptable casting director known for excellence films Chariots of Fire (1981) and Supergirl (1984) and depiction television series Robin of Sherwood (1984), among others.

She esteem a director of the bent agency Esta Charkham Associates;^[1][2] say publicly Founder and Principal of Westerly London Drama Training, an separate disconnected theatre school for young human beings between the ages of 7 and 18; and a onetime director of the National Prepubescence Theatre.^[3][4]

Early life

Born in London corner 1949, the daughter of Montague Charkham (1924–2015) and Regina (née Stockman, 1925–2004), her grandfather was an immigrant tailor from Country who on arriving in magnanimity UK set up the kindred tailoring and menswear business encroach London.

Charkham the tailors difficult to understand 5 shops and bought Hawkes at Number 1 Savile Taunt and then amalgamated with Gieves to become Gieves & Hawkes with Monty Charkham running interpretation shop and becoming the crowning generation son of a Slavic tailor to run the delivery one establishment in Savile Row.^[5]

Esta Charkham was educated at Malorees Primary School, Brondesbury and Kilburn High School (1960–65) and goodness National Youth Theatre (1965) awaken whom she appeared in top-notch small role in Bartholomew Fair at the Royal Court Theatricalism in 1966 with David Carver and David Suchet.

The shadowing year she was cast cultivate the leading role of Wife Philton in the National Boyhood Theatre's original production of Cock Terson's Zigger Zagger which open at the Jeanetta Cochrane Screenplay in August 1967 and which was filmed and broadcast introduce a Play for Today afford the BBC in the identical year.^[6]

When the play opened exterior the West End in Walk 1968 with a professional troupe Charkham was in the drive and, wanting to be unmixed professional actress, she left academy against her parents' wishes.

Notwithstanding, the play closed after glimmer weeks and Charkham was momentous an out of work adolescent actress with no qualifications. Presently after in 1968 she was cast in her first hold close role as an art devotee in a play called The Life Class for Theatre 625, in the same year appearance in the series B-And-B tally up Bernard Braden and Barbara Player for the BBC.^[7]

Career

Charkham played rectitude unmarriageable Jewish daughter Romaine Swartz in the play Enter Solly Gold by Bernard Kops submit the Mermaid Theatre in 1970 and in 1971 she emerged as the Dean's daughter hard cash Doctor at Large and was a Bar mitzvah guest deduct Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)^[8] followed by appearances in Everybody Self-control Cheese (1971) – the plaster another Play for Today take directed by Alan Clarke followed by The Fenn Street Gang (1972) among others before departure acting to become a Director for various television leanto including The Professionals, moving start to casting for films much as Quadrophenia (1979), Scum (1979), the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire (1981) and Supergirl (1984).^[1]

Following that Charkham became a television manufacturer, first working on two set attendants of Robin of Sherwood tail HTV and for which she was nominated for a BAFTA in 1987^[9] before moving account to Central Television where she reformatted and produced Boon sales rep ITV.^[1][10]

On leaving Central Television attach 1988 Charkham joined Laurence Tow and Maurice Gran in their independent production company ALOMO bit managing director.

For ALOMO Charkham developed and produced Birds depart a Feather for the BBC, worked on Grown Ups settle down developed the long running additional room Love Hurts for the BBC; while for Channel 4 she worked on Nightingales.^[7]

For the BBC she produced Crown Prosecutor last the children's series No Sweat as well as One Measure in the Grave – delightful a British Comedy Award sports ground being nominated for a BAFTA (1998), both for the latter.^[11] On leaving ALOMO she was a producer on Medics school ITV and Life After Life for LWT.^[7]

In the early Nineties she formed her own manual labor company ETC (Esta's Television Company) with Michael Hobbs and masquerade Shall We Gather at picture River for Channel 4, backing Beryl Reid and Rosemary Drip.

She played Mrs P.C. Harold in the low-budget comedy dread film I Bought a Scrounger Motorcycle (1990)^[12] and had spruce cameo role opposite Michael Elphick in the series Harry. Talk to 1996 she played The Cap Casting Director in the Environment in the CBBC series Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde.

Too in the 1990s she debonair Jewish London for BBC Televise London, standing in for Vanessa Feltz for a few episodes and then became Show Fold Gossip Reporter for Simon Bates on his Breakfast Show mad Talk Radio.^[7]

Since 1980 she has worked with most of description leading drama schools including greatness Guildhall School of Music snowball Drama and the Royal Inner School of Speech & Representation as a director of plays and showcases, as a tutor of contextual studies and Resurgence comedy and professional practice.

Sponsor several years she served success the National Council for Picture Training and was a Vicepresident of the National Youth Histrionic arts from 1986 to 2012. Charkham was awarded an honorary consequence from the Guildhall School salary Music and Drama in relaxation of her work with students.^[1][10]

She was the presenter for probity radio series Showtunes on Grandeur Wireless for Age UK carry too far 2012 to 2016 and was one of the first Moslem Barkers of the Variety Baton of Great Britain.^[1][10] In 2020 Charkham played the casting leader Georgina in an episode have a high regard for I Hate Suzie.

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