
Maxine Audley
Theatre actress
Date of Birth | : | 29 April, 1923 |
Date of Death | : | 23 July, 1992 (Aged 69) |
Place of Birth | : | London, United Kingdom |
Profession | : | Actor |
Nationality | : | British |
Maxine Audley (ম্যাক্সিন অডলি) was an English theatre and film actress. She made her professional stage debut in July 1940 at the Open Air Theatre. Audley performed with the Old Vic company and the Royal Shakespeare Company many times. She appeared in more than 20 films, the first of which was the 1948 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina.
Biography
Maxine Audley first film was the short The Pleasure Garden (d. James Broughton, 1952), and she had some memorable supporting roles, including Ada Leverson in The Trials of Oscar Wilde (d. Ken Hughes, 1960), Julia in Val Guest's excellent thriller Hell is a City (1959), and, most famously, Anna Massey's blind whisky-drinking mother in Michael Powell's notorious Peeping Tom (1960). She never again had such a rewarding batch and made several very minor 'B' movies, but she was stimulating company. She was still appearing on TV just before she died on 23 July 1992. Noted for her perfect diction and for her excellent acting range in classical plays on stage, in television and on radio.
West End debut in the musical Carissimia in 1948. Between 1950 and 1954, appeared in many Shakespearean roles, including "King Lear", "Much Ado About Nothing, Othello and Caesar and Cleopatra. Cast by John Gielgud in the part of Olivia in "Twelft Night (1955), in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Played Lady Macbeth with the Old Vic company in 1961.
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