Kara Wilson, a Scottish actress, is widely known as the wife of Scottish actor, theatre director, and novelist, Tom Conti.
She was born Kara Drummond Wilson on June 18, 1944 in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Wilson attended The Park School in Glasgow and subsequently majored in psychology at the University of Glasgow.
As the Society’s president, she ran a small theatre company and took productions to both the Edinburgh and Student Drama Festivals.
Kara Wilson commenced her acting career in 1964 and starred in several films and tv series until 2011.
Her film credits include The Children of the New Forest (1964), Mackenzie (1980), Jane Eyre (1970), Warship (1973), Spaghetti Two-Step (1977), Grange Hill (1978), Reuben, Reuben (1983), The Gospel According to Vic (1986), Moving Story (1994), Donovan (2004) and The Power of Three (2011).
Besides acting, Kara Wilson took up painting and studied at Camden Arts Centre where she remained off and on for ten years.
In recent years she has had many exhibitions of her paintings, including one at the Netherbow at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1992 she exhibited with other artists at the Hooper Gallery, St. Johns Wood, and in 1993 at the Wabe Gallery, Hampstead.
Kara Wilson and actor Tom Conti walked down the aisle on July 2, 1967 in Scotland.
Through their union, the couple shares a daughter, the actress and ventriloquist Nina Conti.