Anna Quayle
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| Born | October 6, 1936 London, England |
Anna Quayle is a Tony Award - winning, English actress (born October 6, 1936 in London). She is of Irish descent, from her mother's side of the family.
She has appeared in TV, Film and Theatre. Her film appearances include Smashing Time, a short but notable (not to say strange) scene that she shares with John Lennon in A Hard Day's Night (1964), the German expressionist sequence of Casino Royale (1967) and in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) as Baroness Bomburst.
She appeared on Broadway in the original production of Stop the World - I Want to Get Off opposite the late Anthony Newley. It is for this in 1963 that she won a Tony Award - for Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical).
Quayle's other TV work includes the comedy drama Mapp and Lucia and Grange Hill where she played the role of teacher, Mrs Monroe between 1990 to 1994.
In 1973 she appeared as a regular panellist on the popular BBC2 panel game show What's My Line?.
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| Preceded by Phyllis Newman for Subways are for Sleeping |
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical 1963 for Stop the World - I Want to Get Off |
Succeeded by Tessie O'Shea for The Girl Who Came to Supper |
