biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1940– )
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| biography:
| British actress, born in Chukua, Assam. She studied at the Central School of Music and Drama, London, and worked in repertory, becoming known through her role in Billy Liar (1963). In 1965 she won an Oscar for Darling. She consolidated her career with Dr Zhivago (1965), Far From the Madding Crowd (1967), and The Go-Between (1971). Subsequent films have highlighted her involvement with a variety of political issues, although she returned to more mainstream productions with Heat and Dust (1982), Power (1985), Fools of Fortune (1990), Hamlet (1996), Afterglow (1997), The Miracle Maker (2000, voice), and I'm with Lucy (2002). |
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