Anna Raymond Massey,
CBE (born 11 August, 1937) is an
English actress.
Early life
Massey was
born in Thakeham
, West Sussex
, England, the daughter of British actress Adrianne Allen and Canadian-born Hollywood
actor Raymond
Massey. Her late brother,
Daniel Massey, was also an actor. She
is the niece of
Vincent Massey, a
Governor General of
Canada.
Career
Massey was on stage as a teenager and made her film debut in 1958.
In 1960, she played a potential murder victim in
Michael Powell's cult thriller
Peeping Tom. She played
the role of the
cockney barmaid Babs in
Alfred Hitchcock's
Frenzy (1972). She appeared with her brother
Daniel playing deadly siblings in the 1973 horror film
The Vault of Horror.
Massey continued to make occasional film and stage appearances, but
has worked more frequently in television, in dramas such as
The Pallisers (1974), the
1978 adaptation of
Rebecca
(in which she starred along with her ex-husband,
Jeremy Brett),
The Mayor of Casterbridge
(1978),
The Cherry
Orchard (1980), and
Anna
Karenina (1985). She had roles in the British sitcoms
The Darling Buds of
May (1991) and
The
Robinsons (2005). She has also appeared in a number of
mysteries and thrillers on British television, including episodes
of
Inspector Morse,
The Inspector Alleyn
Mysteries,
Midsomer
Murders,
Strange, and
Lewis. She is the narrator of
This Sceptred Isle on
BBC Radio. She also played the part of
Josephine Daunt in
Daunt and
Dervish on BBC radio.
In 1986, Massey was awarded the British Academy TV Award for Best
Actress for her role in
Hotel Du Lac.
Personal life
In the New Year's Honours List published 31 December, 2004 she was
created a
Commander of the
Order of the British Empire for services to
drama.
She is the ex-wife of late stage and screen actor
Jeremy Brett .
She published an autobiography in 2006.
Partial filmography
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