Diana Quick
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Born | 23 November 1946 London, England |
Occupation | Actress |
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 magazine 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 26 years and never married. The couple met in 1981 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. 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.
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[edit] Selected filmography
[edit] Film
- Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
- The Duellists (1977)
- The Odd Job (1978)
- The Big Sleep (1978)
- Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
- Wilt (1989)
- Saving Grace (2000)
- The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
- The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
- Revengers Tragedy (2002)
[edit] Television
- Brideshead Revisited (1981)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1983)
- Minder: An Officer and a Car Salesman (1988)
- Dalziel and Pascoe ("For Love Nor Money") (2002)
- Inspector Morse ("Absolute Conviction")
- Poirot ("Sad Cypress") (2003)
- Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (2003)
- Kingdom: ("Series 2, Episode 5") (2008)