Sammie Winmill

Born in Bognor in 1950, Sammie Winmill studied acting at the Arts Educational School and worked for several seasons at the Opera House. Her first screen role was an uncredited part in the film Up Pompeii (1971). She was first noticed in the role of nurse Sandra Crumpton in a few episodes of the series "Doctor in Charge" (1972) for London Weekend television. She landed a top billing role as Carol in the sci-fi series "The Tomorrow People" (1973) for the series first season. After leaving the series, she then had many roles in various other television productions including the new Avengers series and "The Duchess of Duke Street" in 1976. She then focused her acting career then entirely on the stage where she appeared in a variety of London theatre productions. By the late 1990s, she had formed an acting school with her teaching, writing plays, and performing in one-women stage productions.