Academy Award-winning, legendary English actress - who maintained her
status in the British acting elite for decades. Made a Dame of the
British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II
in 1956. Almost always on stage, she appeared rarely in film, her first
being
The Wandering Jew (1933).
On stage she was cast in many a Shakespearean role, but in film she
usually played sympathetic characters. She won an Oscar for
Reise nach Indien (1984), and
her last TV film was
She's Been Away (1989).
She died from a stroke.
