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Judi Bowker is, in my opinion, a very talented actress. Looking at her career, I still can not figure out why she is not as famous as the likes of Kiera Knightley or Catherine Zeta Jones, other British exports to Holywood. All trails from Google seem to grow cold post 1994, which is the last entry at IMDB. I was intrigued about what happened to Judi after 1994, so decided to do the research for myself. As it happens, it looks like IMDB is right about her spouse being Harry Meacher, who has been directing and appearing in a number of shows around small theatres in Hampstead and North London. Maybe Ms. Bowker is not into the glitz and limelights of Tinsel Town, who knows ?

I am simply compiling the missing pieces I managed to gather about Judi's career post 1994. It seems she concentrates her work in theatres, doing Shakespeare's adaptations mainly. She even tried her hands at directing for a bit. This went on until 2004, when both her and Harry disappeared from the radar for a year, seemingly performing abroad, mainly aboard cruise ships. Harry has just recently resurfaced in the play Bedroom Farce, which ended its run yesterday. No mention of Judi in the last play. It does not appear they have any children, at least not voting age anyway.

The table below is not exhaustive, I would welcome any contribution on missing images, links, or inaccuracies. It is as much as I can find out with publicly available information. Anything above and beyond that I will have to pay for, and will be a gross invasion into people's privacy, so that is as far as it will go. One other thing I also notice that although there are publicity for the plays Judi was involved in since 1994, it seems like this trail of theatre companies' PR machine do not embrace the online digital age that much. This is probably the reason why search engines fail to come up with coherent results for her theatrical works. I would be interested to know if anyone has been to see her plays in Hampstead and at least let me have some constructive feedbacks.

Year	Project	Credit	Location
1972	The Adventures of Black Beauty	Vicky Gordon	TV
1972	Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Fratello sole, sorella luna)	Clare	Feature Film
1973	Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde	Tupenny	TV
1974	South Ridings	Midge Carne	TV
1975	In This House of Brede	Joanna	TV
1976	The Glittering Prizes	Francesca Davidson	TV
1976	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Sybil Vane	TV
1976	The Rivals	Julia	Royal Exchange
1976	The Prince of Homburg	Princess Natilie of Orange	Royal Exchange
1977	Dracula	Wilhelmina 'Mina' Westenra	TV
1977	East of Elephant Rock	Eve Proudfoot	Feature Film
1981	Clash of the Titans	Andromeda	Feature Film
1981	"Tales of the Unexpected" (episode: The Best of Everything)	Ann Horton	TV
1981	Wilfred and Eileen	Eileen	TV
1984	Ellis Island	Georgiana O'Donnell	TV
1985	The Shooting Party	Lady Olivia Lilburn
1985	Sins	Natalie Junot	TV
1985	Anna Karenina	Kitty	TV
1986	"Worlds Beyond" (episode: The Haunted Garden)		TV
1986	The Women
1988	Menace Unseen	Tessa Shriving	TV
1990	Flare Path
1991	Here Come the Clowns
1994	The Miracle Worker
1994	Kurtuluş	Ms. Stevenson	TV
1995	Bel-Ami
1997	Autumn Music
1997	The Brownings through Casa Guidi Windows	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1998	Hedda Gabler
1999	In Love with Anton	Lydia Avilova	Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Platonov	1999		Upstairs at the Gatehouse
1999	Les Liaisons Dangereuses	Assistant Director
1999	Macbeth
2000	Richard III	Clarence/Edward	Upstairs at the Gatehouse
2001	Cardboard Dreams	Director	The Studio, Beckenham
2001	Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles		Pentameters Theatre
2002	Othello	Director	Pentameters Theatre
2003	Mr Silver's Secret
2004	Deathtrap	as Myra	Upstairs at the Gatehouse
2005	Swan Hellenic Rainforest Discovery Cruise from London to Singapore
2006	Harry is back in town, in Bedroom Farce, not sure about Judi		Upstairs at the Gatehouse

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