Biographies: Jean Anderson - Actor

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A British actress who was born in Eastbourne, Saxe, England, United Kingdom on December 12, 1907 and died on April 1, 2001 in Edenhall, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom. Her most important works include Solomon and Sheba (1959), The Franchise Affair (1951), and The Lady Vanishes (1979). She was born to a father of Scottish origins, who worked as a textile merchant, and she dreamed of being a violinist and went to practice sports to become a tennis player. She appeared in the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in the twenties, but she discovered that she wanted to practice art, so she joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA). In 1931, she joined the Richmond Company to spend 3 years in the Dublin Theater and moved between the most important London theaters presenting Shakespeare's plays Hamlet and Othello. On television, her roles varied between the strict nurse, the cruel mother, the arrogant widow, the intrusive and talkative curious woman, the tyrannical aunt, the house manager, and the maid. Her formal features helped her perform these characters with great success.

• 20 October 2021
• Christina Aziz