Diana Quick

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Diana Quick.

Diana Quick (born 23 November 1946) is an English actress. She grew up in Kent, the third of a dentist's four children.

Quick was born in London, England. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. While at Oxford, she was the first female president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society.

She was feted as one of the most beautiful and talented actresses of her generation and in 1984 a magazines ran a cover of her with the caption 'Is this the most beautiful woman in the world?'.

Quick is best known for her role as Julia in the television production of Brideshead Revisited. Her partner is the actor Bill Nighy and they have one daughter, the actress Mary Nighy (born 1984). They have been together 22 years and never married. The couple met in 1984 when co-starring in a play at the National Theatre. She was previously married to the actor Kenneth Cranham and had a relationship with Albert Finney which lasted seven years, despite his infidelities.

Quick has spent the past seven years researching a book about her paternal family's life in India which she hopes to publish this year. Her great-grandfather served 23 years in the army in India before becoming a policeman and her great-grandmother had to flee from the Indian Mutiny after her father was killed.