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Miss Havisham is a character in Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations. She is a wealthy spinster , once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life.
Wendy Richard (born Wendy Emerton; 20 July 1943 – 26 February 2009) [1] was an English actress, best known for her television roles as Miss Shirley Brahms on the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1985, and Pauline Fowler on the soap opera EastEnders from 1985 to 2006.
As Miss Havisham, she reprised her role from the 1939 stage adaptation by Alec Guinness, which provided the inspiration and template for Lean's film. Her performance met with significant acclaim, and Roger Ebert later wrote in 1999 that she "dominate[d] the [film's] early scenes, playing Miss Havisham as a beak-nosed, shabby figure, bedecked in ...
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is an American period comedy-drama television series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino.It premiered on Amazon Prime Video on March 17, 2017. The series is set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but the final season contains flashforwards to later decades.
Miss Austen is a four-part historical television series. It stars Keeley Hawes and Jessica Hynes. It is an adaptation by Andrea Gibb of the novel Miss Austen by Gill Hornby. Aisling Walsh is directing the series, while Stella Merz is producing for Bonnie Productions and Masterpiece.
From 2002 to 2005, Nimmo starred in the CBeebies children's show Balamory as Miss Hoolie. [4] She played Lovely Sue in the Radio 4 comedy series Fags, Mags and Bags. She played Katrine Trolle and other witnesses in a radio dramatisation of the court case HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan. [5]
Helen Dorothy Martin (July 23, 1909 – March 25, 2000) [2] [3] was an American actress of stage and television. Martin's career spanned over 60 years, appearing first on stage and later in film and television.
Niamh Cusack (/ ˈ n iː v / NEEV; born 20 October 1959) is an Irish actress.Born to a family with deep roots in the performing arts, she has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre, and many others.