Annette Badland (born 1950 in Edgbaston, Birmingham) is an English actress.
Her training took place at East 15 Acting School, London. She has appeared in many television roles including Bergerac (1981-1984), 2point4 children, Jackanory, The Demon Headmaster, The Worst Witch, The Queen's Nose and Coronation Street, as well as an early appearance in series one of the Hale & Pace show in a number of sketches. She played the recurring villain Slitheen a.k.a "Margaret Blaine" in the 2005 series of Doctor Who. In 2006 she put in an appearance at Larkhall Prison for the eighth series of ITV1 drama Bad Girls. She played Angela Robbins, a disturbing inmate who was suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder.
She has also appeared in many films including Jabberwocky (1977) Little Voice (1998) and most recently Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Badland has appeared in several radio dramas including BBC Radio 4's Rolling Home (2001), Smelling of Roses (2003) and an adaptation of George MacDonald's novel At the Back of the North Wind. In 2005 she took the role of Hazel Woolley, the "bad seed" adopted daughter of Jack Woolley in the long running radio soap opera The Archers. She also provides commentary on the Doctor Who Complete Series One Box Set, on the episodes World War Three and Boom Town.
Badland was also the presenter of BBCs You and Me in the early 1990s.
Badland will star in the upcoming British comedy Three and Out released on 25 April 2008.
Trained at the East 15 Acting School on the outskirts of London.
