Born January 31, 1929· Crouch Hill, London, England, UK
† Died January 22, 2010
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Emerging from a modest London upbringing, the youngest of four children, she began performing at fourteen and later refined her talents at the Aida Foster School of Dance before being discovered by director Val Guest. After small parts in wartime British pictures, she achieved breakthrough as Estella in David Lean’s Great Expectations (1946) and earned an Academy Award nomination for Ophelia in La…
