biography
| name: |
Johnson, Dame Celia
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| female
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| lived:
| (1908–82)
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| biography:
| Actress, born in Richmond, SW Greater London, UK. Well-established on the stage, she had leading roles in Noel Coward's wartime films In Which We Serve (1942) and This Happy Breed (1944), and is best remembered for her performance in Brief Encounter (1945). Her later film appearances were infrequent, among them The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1968), but she continued in the theatre and on television until very shortly before her death. |
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