Antonia Moss
- Actress
Antonia Moss, was a child actress who attended the Corona Stage School
between 1961 and 1965. As she was very small she played children until
about the age of 25! Her first film was 'Spare the Rod' 1961 starring
Max Bygraves and was partially filmed at Corona school and Shepperton.
Her first west end stage show was 'The Music Man' at the Adelphi
theatre in 1961 although she had already appeared in pantomime the year
before when aged 12 in 'Mother Goose' at Slough which starred Rosemarie
Squires and Eddie Calvert. Antonia also appeared on television in
'Emergency Ward 10' as Patricia Hare suffering from diphtheria. She
next went on to appear in 'Blitz' at the Adelphi Theatre, when Blitz
closed she was disappointed not to be able to go on tour with the rest
of the cast as she was only 14, one had to be aged 15 to tour in those
days. Antonia played many children's parts in television series
including 'Merry-go-round', 'The Barnstormers', 'Badgers Bend', 'Dr.
Who' and also spent 15 weeks in 'Five O'clock Club'. Antonia played Boy
babe in the pantomime 'Babes in the Wood' starring Hilda Baker at the
New theatre, Huddersfield. Antonia also played Daisy Ashford in the
Young Visiters at Bristol. She toured in a production of 'Peter Pan'
starring Sylvia Sims and Ronnie Lewis in 1965. She played Little Red
Riding Hood at Stratford East and performed in the late-night music
hall at the same venue, she also spent some time at Bath Rep, but when
she gave birth to her daughter Lisa in 1967, she decided to give up
stage work and spent the next 30 years or so as a TV and film extra. As
she was so small she often stood in for children. In her late forties
she decided to go to university and catch up on her missed education.
Antonia obtained a BA in Humanities and went on to take a PG diploma in
Librarianship (information management) and now works for Hillingdon
Libraries.