Margaret Courtenay
Born in Wales to a travelling agriculture salesman, she started acting when she was seven in 1930 in a production of The Trojan Women at Cardiff Little Theatre, where her mother acted. She attended Whitchurch Grammar School and then London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
In 1976, Courtenay won the Laurence Olivier Award for Supporting Artist of the Year for her stage role in the play Separate Tables, by author Terence Rattigan, directed by Michael Blakemore, at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End.
In 1991, Courtenay starred in the radio show ' The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue '.
She was married to Ivan Pinfield and had a son before divorcing. Courtenay retired at Denville Hall, a retirement home for professional actors set in Northwood in the London Borough of Hillingdon. She died of cancer on 15 February 1996 at age 72.
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