Sandra Payne (born 24 September 1944, Royston, Hertfordshire) is an English actress best known for her roles as Miss Mckenzie in Only Fools and Horses, Christine Harris in the British television series Triangle and as Marion Ballard in Waiting for God.
Career Payne attended Selhurst Grammar School and the Italia Conti Academy. She then acted in repertory theatre before appearing on television in the 1960s in the soap operas Compact, The Newcomers and Z-Cars. In 1978, she appeared as Phillipa in The Professionals episode "Blind Run". Payne appeared as a character called "Penny" in the 1979 Christmas special and final episode of George and Mildred.
She also appeared as Mrs. Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop, as Miss Taylor in The Wildcats of St Trinian's (1980), as Eryl Griffith in the 1985 television movie Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Moving Finger, as Mrs Micawber in David Copperfield (1986) and as Miss Mackenzie (Council Housing Officer) in the Only Fools and Horses episode "Homesick" (1983).
Personal life Payne was married to the American lyricist Alan Jay Lerner from 1974 to 1976. Payne was Lerner's sixth wife— he and Payne married in Port au Prince, Haiti, on 10 December 1974, one day after Lerner received a Haitian divorce from his fifth wife.
In 1979, Payne married English filmmaker Roy Boulting; they divorced in 1983. Boulting directed Payne in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Moving Finger in 1985.
Filmography
Film YearTitleRoleNotes1980The Wildcats of St. Trinian'sMiss Taylor
Television YearTitleRoleNotes1963The Plane MakersSecretaryEpisode: "Lover Come Back"1963–1964CompactWendy Millet26 episodes1964Gideon's WayAlice ShortEpisode: "The Big Fix"1964The Likely LadsSheila MillsEpisode: "Older Women Are More Experienced"1965Emergency Ward 10MarleneEpisode: #1.7801965Sherlock HolmesViolet WestburyEpisode: "The Bruce-Partington Plans"1965The TroubleshootersSue AndrewsEpisode: "Young Turk"1965Riviera PoliceIlia DuttonEpisode: "There Comes a Point"1964–1965ITV Play of the WeekGirl Nurse2 episodes1965–1969The NewcomersJanet Langley257 episodes1971SceneEpisode: "Clean Sweep"1972Man at the TopJanet Adams Lady Hudson3 episodes1964–1972Z CarsJean Beryl3 episodes1972General HospitalDoreen Richards2 episodes1974Miss NightingatePearl PringleTelevision film1974Microbes and MenMarie SemmelweisEpisode: "The Invisible Enemy"19781990Barbara Fairlie2 episodes1978Scorpion TalesKaren OldfieldEpisode: "The Ghost in the Pale Blue Dress"1978The SweeneyMerylEpisode: "Latin Lady"1978The ProfessionalsPhillipaEpisode: "Blind Run"1979Tales of the UnexpectedMiss PulteneyEpisode: "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat"1979Atom SpiesMarianne PontecorvoTelevision film1979ShelleyAngieEpisode: "Gainfully Unemployed"1979George and MildredPenelopeEpisode: "The Twenty-Six Year Itch"1979Collision CourseRuth PendersonTelevision film1979–1980The Old Curiosity ShopMrs. Quilp6 episodes1980All Creatures Great and SmallMarjorie GillardEpisode: "Home and Away"1980Just LizLiz Parker6 episodes1982–1983TriangleChristine Harris52 episodes1983Only Fools and HorsesMargaret MacKenzieEpisode: "Homesick"1985Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Moving FingerEryl Griffith2 episodes1986Never the TwainBelindaEpisode: "In Whom We Tryst"1986David CopperfieldMrs Micawber4 episodes1988Jack the RipperMrs. Acland2 episodes1990–1994Waiting for GodMarion Ballard46 episodes1996Roger RogerPamTelevision film
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