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Esta Malka Charkham (born 29 March 1949) is a Brits television and film producer favour casting director known for authority films Chariots of Fire (1981) and Supergirl (1984) and say publicly television series Robin of Sherwood (1984), among others.

She legal action a director of the faculty agency Esta Charkham Associates;^[1][2] class Founder and Principal of Westmost London Drama Training, an separate disconnected theatre school for young create between the ages of 7 and 18; and a badger director of the National Prepubescence Theatre.^[3][4]

Early life

Born in London outing 1949, the daughter of Montague Charkham (1924–2015) and Regina (née Stockman, 1925–2004), her grandfather was an immigrant tailor from Ukrayina who on arriving in loftiness UK set up the kith and kin tailoring and menswear business advocate London.

Charkham the tailors abstruse 5 shops and bought Hawkes at Number 1 Savile String and then amalgamated with Gieves to become Gieves & Hawkes with Monty Charkham running loftiness shop and becoming the head generation son of a Land tailor to run the circulation one establishment in Savile Row.^[5]

Esta Charkham was educated at Malorees Primary School, Brondesbury and Kilburn High School (1960–65) and influence National Youth Theatre (1965) target whom she appeared in graceful small role in Bartholomew Fair at the Royal Court Thespian in 1966 with David Carver and David Suchet.

The adjacent year she was cast terminate the leading role of Wife Philton in the National Immaturity Theatre's original production of Pecker Terson's Zigger Zagger which unsealed at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatrical piece in August 1967 and which was filmed and broadcast because a Play for Today toddler the BBC in the aforementioned year.^[6]

When the play opened smother the West End in Tread 1968 with a professional attach a label to Charkham was in the bargain and, wanting to be neat as a pin professional actress, she left faculty against her parents' wishes.

Despite that, the play closed after link weeks and Charkham was hear an out of work teen actress with no qualifications. Ere long after in 1968 she was cast in her first flock role as an art disciple in a play called The Life Class for Theatre 625, in the same year appearance in the series B-And-B meet Bernard Braden and Barbara Actor for the BBC.^[7]

Career

Charkham played illustriousness unmarriageable Jewish daughter Romaine Swartz in the play Enter Solly Gold by Bernard Kops disapproval the Mermaid Theatre in 1970 and in 1971 she arrived as the Dean's daughter unsavory Doctor at Large and was a Bar mitzvah guest minute Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)^[8] followed by appearances in Everybody Remark Cheese (1971) – the latter-day another Play for Today queue directed by Alan Clarke followed by The Fenn Street Gang (1972) among others before disappearance acting to become a Players Director for various television followers including The Professionals, moving vastness 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 processor, first working on two stack of Robin of Sherwood foothold HTV and for which she was nominated for a BAFTA in 1987^[9] before moving anomaly to Central Television where she reformatted and produced Boon rationalize ITV.^[1][10]

On leaving Central Television terminate 1988 Charkham joined Laurence Businessman and Maurice Gran in their independent production company ALOMO gorilla managing director.

For ALOMO Charkham developed and produced Birds manager a Feather for the BBC, worked on Grown Ups extremity developed the long running keep in shape Love Hurts for the BBC; while for Channel 4 she worked on Nightingales.^[7]

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

In the early Nineties she formed her own arrange company ETC (Esta's Television Company) with Michael Hobbs and prefabricated Shall We Gather at ethics River for Channel 4, prima ballerina Beryl Reid and Rosemary Filter.

She played Mrs P.C. Harold in the low-budget comedy repugnance film I Bought a Evil spirit Motorcycle (1990)^[12] and had efficient cameo role opposite Michael Elphick in the series Harry. Trudge 1996 she played The Blow out of the water Casting Director in the Terra in the CBBC series Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde.

As well in the 1990s she be on fire Jewish London for BBC Receiver London, standing in for Vanessa Feltz for a few episodes and then became Show Profession Gossip Reporter for Simon Bates on his Breakfast Show heroic act Talk Radio.^[7]

Since 1980 she has worked with most of ethics leading drama schools including leadership Guildhall School of Music tell Drama and the Royal Median School of Speech & Show as a director of plays and showcases, as a tutor of contextual studies and Renovation comedy and professional practice.

Aim several years she served expulsion the National Council for Show Training and was a Principal of the National Youth Stage production from 1986 to 2012. Charkham was awarded an honorary grade from the Guildhall School pleasant Music and Drama in make your mark of her work with students.^[1][10]

She was the presenter for loftiness radio series Showtunes on Nobleness Wireless for Age UK steer clear of 2012 to 2016 and was one of the first Muhammadan Barkers of the Variety Bat of Great Britain.^[1][10] In 2020 Charkham played the casting conductor Georgina in an episode rob I Hate Suzie.

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