Margaret courtenay biography

  • Margaret Courtenay was a British actress best known for her British theatre roles during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • Margaret Courtenay (14 November 1923 – 15 February 1996) was a British actress best known for her British theatre roles during the 1970s and 1980s.
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    Margaret Courtenay (actress)

    YearTitleRoleDirectorNotes

    1949

    A Midsummer Night's DreamTitaniaSt Martin's Theatre, West End, London.

    1954

    A Midsummer Night's DreamHippolytaMichael BenthallMetropolitan Opera House, Broadway, New York City.[6]

    1956

    Romeo and JulietLady CapuletRobert HelpmannWinter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City.[7]

    1956

    Troilus and CressidaCassandraElizabeth ButterfieldWinter Garden Theatre, huvudgata, New York City.[8]

    1958

    HamletGertrudeMichael BenthallBroadway Theatre, huvudgata, New York City.[9]

    1958

    King Henry VQueen IsabelMichael BenthallBroadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City.[10]

    1961–1962

    The Lady of the CamelliasRobert HelpmannOld Vic Overseas Tour (12 July 1961 to 17 March 1962) : Australia and New Zealand. Starring Vivien Leigh in title role.

    1962

    The Lady of the CamelliasRobe

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    The History Jar

    The prelude to the Wars of the Roses and the wars themselves are notable by the role of a number of ambitious and dynastically important women who even managed to get their portraits painted in an age when it wasn’t done to waste paint on the female of the species. There are other women though, wives, mothers and sisters who were part of the Plantagenet tangle but who remain largely in the shadows – leaving modern observers to wonder what they felt about the feuds and wars that saw their families at one another’s throats – and of course to wonder what they looked like. Lady Margaret Beaufort is one such  woman… not the mother of Henry Tudor – the aunt of the much more famous Lady Margaret Beaufort.

     

     

    Our Lady Margaret Beaufort was born at the turn of the fifteenth century, the daughter of the First Earl of Somerset, John Beaufort. This means, that her paternal grandparents were John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford. Her mother was Marg

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    Ebullient Welsh-born character actress Margaret Courtenay was born on November 14, 1923 in Cardiff, Wales. With resounding voice and dominant personality, she was known for The Mirror Crack'd (1980), Duet for One (1986) and Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992).

    Courtenay was trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. A prolific performer at the London West End, she appeared in anything from Shakespeare and Shaw, to Coward and Sondheim. Her special forte was in comedy-tinged roles as overbearing or snobbish society matrons and impossible mothers-in-law. Her screen career, from 1955, was primarily confined to television.

    She was married to Ivan Pinfield. The couple had one son. She died on February 15, 1996 in London, England.

    BornNovember 14, 1923

    DiedFebruary 15, 1996(72)

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