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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1908-12-18 (116 years old)

Place of Birth

Richmond, Surrey, England, UK

Celia Johnson

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  

Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE (18 December 1908 – 25 April 1982) was a British actress.

She began her stage acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End and Broadway productions. She also appeared in several films, including the romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for BAFTA Awards on five occasions, and won twice, for her work in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), and for the television production Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, a BBC Play for Today broadcast in 1973.

Much of her later work was for television, and she continued performing in theatre for the rest of her life. She died suddenly from a stroke.

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Known For

Acting

1981

All's Well That Ends Well as Countess of Rousillon

1980

Staying On as Lucy Smalley
The Hostage Tower as Mrs. Wheeler

1978

Les Misérables as Sister Simplice
The BBC Television Shakespeare as Countess of Rousillion

1977

The Emperor's New Hat as La Comtesse de Chemaille

1976

The Dame of Sark as Sybil Hathaway

1975

Lloyd George Knew My Father as Lady Sheila Boothroyd

1974

Love Affair as Mrs Hobbish

1973

1971

The Cherry Orchard as Madame Ranevskaya

1970

1969

1957

The Good Companions as Miss Trant

1955

1953

The Captain's Paradise as Maud St. James

1952

The Holly and the Ivy as Jenny Gregory
I Believe in You as Matty Matheson

1950

The Astonished Heart as Barbara Faber

1945

Brief Encounter as Laura Jesson

1944

This Happy Breed as Ethel Gibbons

1943

Dear Octopus as Cynthia

1942

In Which We Serve as Mrs. Kinross / Alix

1941

Letter from Home as Mrs Taylor