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Margaret Courtenay (1923-1996) trained at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts and made her first professional stage appearances during the Stratford-on-Avon 1947 season. After appearing in Peter Brook’s production of Ring Around the Moon and Tyrone Guthrie’s Henry VIII at the Old Vic, she toured with yhe Stratford company in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, playing opposite Vivian Leigh in La Dame aux Camellias, Duel of Angels and Twelfth Night. She next created the role of Ruby in Alfie in the West End and on Broadway. Constant stage work followed, including three seasons at Chichester and creating the role of Madame Zenia in the first West End production of The Killing of Sister George. In 1976, she won both the Society of West End Theatres award for Best Supporting Actress (in 13 Rue d’Amour) and the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress (for Separate Tables).
They were appropriate awards. She was not a leading lady but was a superb, talented and reliable portrayer of supporting roles, especially of aristocratic women with a hard-edge to their character. Although almost all of her career was spent in the theatre, this was also true of her work in the dozen or so films in which she appeared and the half dozen TV mini-series.
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Theatre: Programs (UK) - post 1939 | HADRIAN VII (by Peter Luke) with Alec McCowen |
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Theatre: Books - Plays | MARCUS, Frank, 'THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE' (1st edition - with d/w) |
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