Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Olivier Award-winning actress who played Barry Foster in Alfred Hitchcock’s penultimate film The Tie-Tie Murderer one of the victims, crazyalready dead. She is 88 years old.
Leigh-Hunt’s family announced that she died peacefully at her home in Warwickshire, England, on September 16.
The British star is also known for her role as Dame Catherine de Bauer in the critically acclaimed 1995 BBC adaptation. pride and Prejudicestarring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
During her seventy-year career, Leigh-Hunt performed in London’s West End and on Broadway with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. In 1993 she won an Olivier Award for her performance as Sybil Birling in the revival of JB Priestley’s NT Inspector callsdirected by Stephen Daldry.
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Her film resume includes Henry VIII and his six wives (1972), bequeathed to the country (1973), Joe Camp Tengu (1980), paper mask (1990), joyful war (1997), Daldry’s Billy Elliot (2000) with Mira Nair vanity fair (2004).
Leigh Hunt was born on December 14, 1935 in Bath, Somerset, England. She graduated from Bristol Old Vic Drama School in 1953 and made her London debut with the Old Vic a year later.
She went to Broadway with the company to perform a midsummer night’s dream 1954 and village and king henry v 1958-59. In the 1970s, she starred in the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) farce, king lear and Sherlock HolmesIn 1973, she appeared on Broadway with the play.
Leigh Hunter also appears in Mike Newell’s drama (Mrs. Mouse, are you in there?), Tom Stoppard (farce) and Richard Eyre (Bartholomew’s Fair, Racing Demon) and played Big Mom in “Big Mom” cat on a hot tin roof Worked in the Northern Territory in 1988.
She was married to actor Richard Pasco from 1967 until his death in 2014. Donations in her memory may be made to the Royal Theater Trust.
