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Anna Massey

Born Anna Raymond Massey
11 August 1937 (1937-08-11) (age 70)
Thakeham, West Sussex, England, UK
Occupation Actress
Spouse(s) Jeremy Brett (1958-1962) 1 Child
Uri Andres (1990-Present)

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Massey was born in Thakeham, West Sussex, England, the daughter of British actress Adrianne Allen and Canadian-born Hollywood actor Raymond Massey. Thakeham is a Village and Civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England located 3 Settlements Most settlements in West Sussex are either along the south coast or are situated in the M23 corridor England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Adrianne Allen (7 February 1907 - 14 September 1993 was an English stage actress who specialised in light Comedy, most famous for her roles as Sybil Chase in Raymond Hart Massey ( August 30 1896 &ndash July 29 1983) was a Canadian -born American actor Her late brother, Daniel Massey, was also an actor. Daniel Raymond Massey ( 10 October 1933 - 25 March 1998) was a Golden Globe award-winning English Actor She is the niece of Vincent Massey, a Governor General of Canada. Charles Vincent Massey PC CC CH CD FRSC ( February 20, 1887 – December 30, The Governor General of Canada ( French: Gouverneure générale du Canada, or: Gouverneur général du Canada) is the vice-regal representative

Massey was on stage as a teenager and made her film debut in 1958. In 1960, she played a potential murder victim in Michael Powell's cult thriller Peeping Tom. Michael Latham Powell ( 30 September 1905 &ndash 19 February 1990) was a British Film director, renowned for his partnership Peeping Tom is a Psychological thriller film by the British film director Michael Powell. Her film role best-known to international audiences is probably that of the cockney barmaid Babs in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972). The term Cockney has both geographical and linguistic associations Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 Frenzy is a 1972 thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is the Penultimate feature film of his extensive career Late in the film, her character becomes a murder victim, setting up a memorable sequence in which the killer must retrieve an incriminating diamond stickpin from the corpse, which he has loaded onto a potato truck. Massey later said that the scenes of her character nude or as a corpse in the film were performed by doubles. [1]

Massey continued to make occasional film and stage appearances, but has become better known as a television actress, appearing in classic dramas such as The Pallisers in 1974, the 1978 adaptation of Rebecca (in which she starred along with her ex-husband, Jeremy Brett), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978), The Cherry Orchard (1980), and Anna Karenina (1985). Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic The Pallisers is a 1974 BBC Television adaptation of Anthony Trollope 's Palliser novels. Rebecca is a Novel by British author Daphne du Maurier. When Rebecca was first published in 1938 du Maurier became - to her great Jeremy Brett (3 November 1933 – 12 September 1995 born Peter Jeremy William Huggins, was an English Actor famous among other things for his The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886 is a tragic novel by English Author Thomas Hardy subtitled "The Life and Death of a Man of Character" The Cherry Orchard (Вишнëвый сад or Vishniovy sad in Russian) is Russian Playwright Anton Chekhov 's last Anna Karenina ( Анна Каренина) also Anglicised as Anna Karenin, is a Novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy She had roles in the quirky British sitcoms The Darling Buds of May (1991) and The Robinsons (2005). The Darling Buds of May is a British Television series which was first broadcast between 1991 and 1993 produced by Yorkshire Television The Robinsons is a British TV series about a Reinsurance Actuary, Ed Robinson (played by Martin Freeman) who realises She has also appeared in a number of mysteries and thrillers on British television, including episodes of Inspector Morse, The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, Midsomer Murders, Strange, and Lewis. Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse is a Fictional character in a series of thirteen Detective novels by British Author Colin Roderick Alleyn is a Fictional character who first appeared in 1934 Midsomer Murders is a British television Drama that has aired on ITV1 since 1997 Lewis ( Leòdhas ʎɔːɣəs̪ ( Norse: Ljoðhús "home She is the narrator of This Sceptred Isle on BBC Radio. This Sceptred Isle was created as a series of short 12-14 minute Radio programmes by the BBC for transmission daily on Radio 4 from 1995 about BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927

In the New Year's Honours List published 31 December 2004 she was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to Drama. Events 406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. She published an autobiography in 2006.

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Other roles

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References

  1. ^ Interview with Anna Massey on the DVD release of Frenzy, 2001

External links

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