Early Life
Angela Thorne was born in Karachi, British India, (now Pakistan), in 1939. The daughter of an Indian Army doctor father and a teacher mother, she spent the first five years of her life in India. She trained for the stage at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her marriage to television actor Peter Penry-Jones lasted from 22 September 1967 until his death in 2009. They had two sons, actors Laurence and Rupert.
In the BBC Who do you think you are? programme featuring son Rupert, broadcast in August 2010, it was revealed that Thorne's father William had served with the Indian Medical Corps at the Battle of Monte Cassino and that his preceding ancestors had a long-standing connection with the Indian Army.
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