Heather Grace Angel (9 February 1909 – 13 December 1986) was a British actress. She was known for providing the voice of Mrs. Darling, Wendy's mother in Peter Pan (1953) and Alice's sister in Alice in Wonderland (1951).

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Heather Angel
Angel in 1934
Born	Heather Grace Angel (1909-02-09)9 February 1909 Headington, Oxford, England
Died	13 December 1986(1986-12-13) (aged 77) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1931–1979
Spouses	Ralph Forbes ​ ​ (m. 1934; div. 1941)​ Robert B. Sinclair ​ ​ (m. 1944; died 1970)​
Children	1

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Angel was born 9 February 1909 in Headington, Oxford, England.^[1][2] She was the daughter of Mary Letitia Stock and Andrea Angel, an Oxford University chemistry lecturer and initially a don at Brasenose College and later at Christ Church. They were married in 1904 and, after the wedding, they moved to the Banbury Road.^[3] Andrea Angel's maternal grandfather was an Italian refugee who was named after his uncle Andrea Rabagliati.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1911 UK Census, the family is shown as living at 17 Banbury Road, Oxford along with three servants. She was the younger of two sisters.

Andrea Angel was killed in the Silvertown explosion in January 1917, and posthumously awarded the Edward Medal (First Class).^[4] In his will, he left his wife £374^[5] and shortly thereafter, his wife moved to London with the two daughters.^[6] By 1929, when Heather was 19, she was already appearing with an overseas touring theatre company managed by Charles Bradbury-Ingles.^[7] The same record shows that she was living at 20 Queen Anne's Grove, London W4, when she left.

Angel married actor Ralph Forbes in Arizona in 1934, a union that lasted less than ten years. Angel had acted with Henry Wilcoxon in Self Made Lady (1932) when they were both in Britain. When she heard Wilcoxon was also in Hollywood, she contacted him. She invited him to polo matches at the home of Will Rogers and later taught him horseback riding. They acted together in two other films: The Last of the Mohicans (1936) and Lady Hamilton (1941). Though they remained lifelong friends, they never married. Heather and her husband were both present at the wedding of Wilcoxon to his first wife. They had intended to host the wedding at their house in Coldwater Canyon.^[11]

Angel married Robert B. Sinclair (1905–1970), a film and television director, in 1944. On 4 January 1970, an intruder, Billy McCoy Hunter, broke into their home. When Sinclair attempted to protect Angel, Hunter killed him in her presence, then fled. He was allegedly found with a knife and pistol when arrested.^[12] The incident is believed to have been a failed burglary. Angel had one son with Sinclair in 1947.

In 1986, Angel died of cancer in Los Angeles.^[13] She was cremated at Santa Barbara Cemetery.^[14]

Angel has a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the film industry. Her star is located at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard.^[15]