Anthea Shirley Askey (2 March 1933 – 28 February 1999) was an English actress who was a popular television actress of the 1950s.

Anthea Askey was born in Golders Green, London to the comedian and actor Arthur Askey, and his wife Elizabeth May Swash (m. 1925, d. 1974). In many of her television roles she would star with him. Her early television appearances included Love and Kisses, where she played Rose Brown, whose father Bill was played by her father, The Love Match, Ramsbottom Rides Again, Before Your Very Eyes, Living It Up, The Dickie Henderson Half-Hour, Arthur's Treasured Volumes and a comeo appearance in Make Mine a Million in 1959.

In 1993, she starred in an episode of The Darling Buds of May. Anthea Askey died in Worthing, Sussex in 1999 aged 65.

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• Anthea Askey at the Internet Movie Database

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