Emily Richard (born 25 January 1948) is a British actress and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.One of three sisters, Richard was born in London, where she attended drama school in 1966, aged 18, but she was asked to leave after a year as she was "too timid". She then sold programmes in theatres in London's West End. Having acquired an agent, her first professional role was as Mole in a theatre production of Toad of Toad Hall. A former member of the BBC Radio Repertory Company, Richard has worked extensively for radio, and once played 'Tess' in Tess of the d'Urbervilles in that medium.
She has two children with her husband Edward Petherbridge, a daughter Dora (born 1983) and a son Arthur (born 1986). She also has a stepson David (born 1965), from her husband's first marriage.
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