Angela Margaret Leslie Thorne (25 January 1939 – 16 June 2023) was a British actress of stage, television and film having performed roles in World in Ferment (1969), Get Some In!

(1976), The Good Life (1977), Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War and Heartbeat, The BFG (1989) as the voice of the Queen, Three Up, Two Down and Lassie (2005).

(initially at the Whitehall Theatre in 1981, for which she was nominated for Best Comedy Performance at the 1981 Laurence Olivier Awards, and subsequently for the video release).

The daughter of an Indian Army doctor father, William Herbert Alfred Thorne, and a teacher mother, Sylvia (née Leslie), she spent the first five years of her life in India.

[3] Thorne received a nomination at the 1981 Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Comedy Performance for playing Margaret Thatcher in Anyone for Denis?

She played the part of Margaret Thatcher in a television version of the satirical, comic farce Anyone for Denis?, in 1982.

In 1989, she voiced the role of Elizabeth II in The BFG, the film adaptation of Roald Dahl's book.