Dorothy Tutin
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Dame Dorothy Tutin DBE, (April 8, 1930 – August 6, 2001)[1] was a highly-regarded English actress of stage, film, and television.
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[edit] Biography
Dorothy Tutin was born in London in 1930, to a couple who did not marry until the following year. When she was alive her year of birth was often given as 1931, in order to disguise the circumstances of her birth. She was educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley, Surrey and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Tutin was also a talented pianist, but chose acting, rather than music as her vocation.
She married the actor Derek Waring, and they had two children, a son and a daughter. Dorothy Tutin and Derek Waring remained married until her death in 2001 at the age of 71 from leukaemia. Derek died in 2007.
Their daughter, Amanda Waring, is also an actress who was married for a few years in the late 1980s to Swedish singer Tommy Körberg.
She was created a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1967, and raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in 2000.[1]
[edit] Career
Having made her stage debut in 1949, her unusual looks, as well as her acting ability, led to early success, and she won the role of Cecily in the 1952 film of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
Her next major film role was as Lucie in the 1958 film of A Tale of Two Cities, opposite Sir Dirk Bogarde.
In 1960, Tutin was asked by Peter Hall to join his newly formed Royal Shakespeare Company.[1] She continued to divide her appearances between stage, TV, and film, appearing in the 1970 film Cromwell starring Richard Harris and Sir Alec Guinness as Queen Henrietta Maria, before playing another Queen in 1971 as Anne Boleyn in the BBC's hit series, The Six Wives of Henry VIII. She appeared in the Ken Russell film Savage Messiah in 1972.
She also performed as the teacher Sarah Burton in the TV-series South Riding (1974), based on the novel by Winifred Holtby. In the early 1980s Tutin also appeared in the made-for-television movie "Murder with Mirrors" (based on an Agatha Christie novel) along with Helen Hayes and Bette Davis. Another of her notable roles was as Goneril in an Emmy-winning television production of Shakespeare's King Lear, opposite Laurence Olivier as King Lear and Robert Lang as the Duke of Albany.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010807/ai_n14417152 Obituary: The Independent
