Celia Christine Gregory (23 September 1949 – 8 September 2008) was a British stage, film and television actress, who became a faith healer later in life.
Best-known for her role as Ruth Anderson in the 1970s BBC television drama Survivors, she also appeared in such television series as Hammer House of Horror, The Professionals, Bergerac, Tales of the Unexpected, The Problem of Thor Bridge and Reilly, Ace of Spies, among many others.
She also worked as a stage actress in London's West End opposite Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright and Frank Finlay in 1973 in Eduardo de Filippo's play, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.[1]
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She was born in London but her parents divorced and her mother remarried, to a German industrialist, so she grew up in Switzerland, Germany and Holland. She learned German, French, Portuguese and Italian. As well as her two sisters, she gained three stepbrothers who had been raised in Brazil.[2]
She married Keith Bender and they had two sons. The marriage ended in divorce. She retired in 1993 to spend time with her family. [3]
Celia Gregory died in 2008, aged 58, from undisclosed causes. She is survived by her sons, her sisters Leyla and Yvonne, and her stepbrothers, Klaus, Uli and Andreas.