Anna-Louise Plowman (sometimes known as Anna-Louise Stephens) is an actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Consultant Anaesthetist Annalese Carson in Holby City and Dr. Sarah Gardner in Stargate SG-1 who was possessed by the Goa'uld Osiris. In 2003 she played Melinda Maclean, wife of British communist spy Donald Duart Maclean, and mistress of spy Kim Philby (played by husband Toby Stephens), in the TV mini-series Cambridge Spies. She played Diana Goddard in the Doctor Who story "Dalek" in 2005. Plowman also played the role of "C" in a revival of Edward Albee's play, Three Tall Women, in 2006, at the Oxford Playhouse.
Plowman attended the Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, NZ between 1982 and 1989, where she graduated from Form 7. She later attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and the Lecoq School in Paris.
Plowman married actor Toby Stephens in London, in 2001 and thus has actress Maggie Smith as her mother-in-law. In May 2007, Plowman and Stephens, had their first child, a son named Eli Alistair.[2] Simon Gray, the renowned British playwright (who penned Japes, a stage play, and Missing Dates, a radio drama, both of which starred Stephens), was reportedly Eli's godfather.[3] The couple became parents of a second child, a girl named Tallulah, in May 2009.[4] The couple were expecting a third child in September 2010.[5] Third child, a daughter named Kura born in September 2010.
