Delia Lindsay is a multitalented English actress who has made a lasting impact on the British film and television industry, with a career spanning over five decades.
She began her acting journey in 1970, playing the role of "Alice" in the Gothic horror film Scars of Dracula, a Hammer Films production at Elstree Studios. Her character's romantic involvement with "Paul" (Christopher Matthews) added a touch of comic relief to the film, which is considered one of the bloodiest and most violent entries in the Hammer's "Dracula" series.
Delia married Jeremy Sinden, a talented English character actor, in 1978. They had two daughters, Kezia (born December 18, 1979) and Harriet (born July 1, 1984). However, her husband tragically passed away at the age of 45 due to lung cancer in 1996.
Throughout her career, Delia has made guest appearances in several television sitcoms. She played "Norma" in the episode "The Restaurant" of the first series of A Fine Romance (1981),which was first broadcast on November 15, 1981. The sitcom, written by Bob Larbey, starred Michael Williams and Judi Dench.
Delia also appeared as "Mrs. Highsmith" in the fifth episode, Des. Det. Res. (1984),of the first series of Fresh Fields (1984),a sitcom starring Julia McKenzie and Anton Rodgers. The episode was first broadcast on April 4, 1984.
In 1999, Delia played the role of "Lady Basildon" in An Ideal Husband, a film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play. Wilde described Delia's character as a woman "of exquisite fragility", whose "affectation of manner has a delicate charm".
In 2002, Delia played "Mrs. Arrowpoint" in a BBC adaptation of Daniel Deronda, a George Eliot novel first published in 1876. The mini-series was made by the same team that produced the 1994 television dramatization of Middlemarch, which featured Delia's late husband, Jeremy Sinden, in the role of "Captain Lydgate".
In 2010, Delia played "Barbara" in the BBC drama On Expenses, a television film about the political scandal of members of the British parliament making fraudulent expenses claims.
