Jane Wymark

The daughter of English actor Patrick Wymark (1926-1970) and the American writer and playwright Olwen Wymark (1932-2013), she is best known for playing Morwenna Chynoweth Whitworth in the 1970s BBC television period drama Poldark (1977), and more recently as Joyce Barnaby (1997-2011) in the ITV detective series Midsomer Murders. She has appeared in television dramas such as The Bass Player and the Blonde, A Touch of Frost, Dangerfield, Lovejoy and Pie in the Sky. She also appeared as Jill Mason in the Birmingham Rep production of Equus. She is the great-granddaughter of novelist and short story writer W. W. Jacobs.