biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1939– )
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| biography:
| Actress, born in Johannesburg, NE South Africa. She studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, then at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Her many performances include Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at Stratford in 1972, and Hedda in Hedda Gabler in London in 1976–7. In 1987 she directed Othello at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, defying apartheid by casting a black actor in the title role, and also filmed it for television. Her films include A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1970), The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), Nuns on the Run (1990), and Leon, the Pig Farmer (1993). In England her 1997 production of The Cherry Orchard, with a South African setting, won critical acclaim. She has twice won the Evening Standard Drama Award for Best Actress. |
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