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Francesca Annis
Birthday:
14 May 1945
Birth Name:
Francesca Maria P. Annis
Height:
163 cm
Biography
[Speaking about her 1978 role as Lily Langtry] She exploited everything and everyone, but she still managed to maintain their respect. I don't know if I would have gone to bed with a man to get what I wanted, even if I had been born in her era, when women had so little freedom. But I can think of worse things people have done to succeed.
[Speaking about her 1978 role as Lily Langtry] She exploited everything and everyone, but she still managed to maintain their respect. I don't know if I would have gone to bed with a man to get what I wanted, even if I had been born in her era, when women had so little freedom. But I can think of worse things people have done to succeed.
Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the 20s, the 30s, the 40s.
Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the 20s, the 30s, the 40s.
As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
Francesca Annis
English actress Francesca Annis, who has enjoyed a 50-plus year career, spanning seven decades in movies, television and the theater, was born in London six days after V-E Day, on May 14, 1945. Her father, Lester, was English, but her mother, Mariquita (aka Mara Purcell), was of Brazilian-French heritage. From the time she was a year old to the age of seven, the family lived in Brazil. The young Francesca spoke Portuguese, that country's language, as a child. Educated at a convent school, she dreamed of becoming a nun but trained as a ballet dancer before studying drama at the Corona Theatre School. She began acting in bit parts in the 1950s, working her way up to better roles. In addition to appearing on the big and little screens, she was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.Her most famous roles are as Lady Macbeth in Roman Polanski's version of The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971), in which she had a notorious nude sleepwalking scene, and as Kyle MacLachlan (Paul Atreides)' mother Lady Jessica in David Lynch's adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune (1984). A highly respected performer, in 1979, she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, playing Lily Langtry in the miniseries Lillie (1978). She appeared with James Warwick as husband and wife sleuths Tommy and Tuppence Beresford in the television series Partners in Crime (1983). She also appeared as Jacqueline Kennedy in the television movie Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988).
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