Acting Roles
Thorson is best known for her role as Tara King (succeeding Diana Rigg as Emma Peel) in the last season of the British TV adventure series, The Avengers, with the original star Patrick Macnee. She was reunited with Macnee in a commercial for Laurent-Perrier champagne in the mid 1970s which led to the series reappearing as The New Avengers, although Thorson did not reprise her role.
Since then, she appeared in character roles in many TV series and films, including Thriller, Return of the Saint, The Greek Tycoon (1978), Blind Justice (1986), Sweet Liberty (1986), and Marblehead Manor (1987). She appeared from 1989 to 1992 in the daytime drama One Life to Live as Julia Medina. She also appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation, playing a Cardassian starship captain in the 6th season episode 'The Chase' (1993).
Thorson has performed in over fifty dramatic and musical stage productions, including five appearances on Broadway. She appeared in the theatre in 1971, starring alongside Michael Crawford and Anthony Valentine in the London West End hit show No Sex Please, We're British and later appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania at the Open Air Theatre, Regents Park, London. In 2002, she portrayed a Supreme Court Justice in the movie Half Past Dead with Steven Seagal and Ja Rule.
Throughout 2006-07, Thorson played the villainous Rosemary King in the ITV series, Emmerdale, and most recently played Hester Salomon in a UK tour of Equus. In the summer of 2008, she appeared at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in the Lerner & Loewe musical, Gigi.
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