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Welsh actress
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Female
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Cardiff, City and County of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Death
15 February 1996 (aged 72 years)
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London, England, UK
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72 years
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London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art,
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Biography
Margaret Courtenay (14 November 1923 – 15 February 1996) was a British actress best known for her British theatre roles during the 1970s and 1980s. She was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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.
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.
Stage work
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania | St Martin's Theatre, West End, London. | ||
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Hippolyta | Michael Benthall | Metropolitan Opera House, Broadway, New York City. | |
| Romeo and Juliet | Lady Capulet | Robert Helpmann | Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City. | |
| Troilus and Cressida | Cassandra | Elizabeth Butterfield | Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City. | |
| Hamlet | Gertrude | Michael Benthall | Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City. | |
| King Henry V | Queen Isabel | Michael Benthall | Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City. | |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Robert Helpmann | Old Vic Overseas Tour (12 July 1961 to 17 March 1962) : Australia and New Zealand. Starring Vivien Leigh in title role. | ||
| The Lady of the Camellias | Robert Helpmann | Old Vic Overseas Tour (29 March 1962 to 16 May 1962) : Latin America. Starring Vivien Leigh in title role. | ||
| King Lear | Cordelia | Royal Shakespeare Company (European/US Tour) | ||
| Alfie ! | Ruby | Gilchrist Calder | Morosco Theatre, Broadway, New York City. | |
| Mame | Vera Charles | Lawrence Kasha | The musical starred Ginger Rogers in title role, and ran for 14 months at the Royal Drury Lane Theatre (West End, London), with a special performance for Queen Elizabeth II. | |
| Ambassador | Amelia Newsome | Stone Widney | Musical starring Howard Keel and Danielle Darrieux. It premiered on 19 October 1971, at Her Majesty's Theatre (West End, London). | |
| Separate Tables | Mrs Railton-Bell | Michael Blakemore | At the Apollo Theatre, London, with John Mills, Jill Bennett and Raymond Huntley. 1976 : Laurence Olivier Award for Supporting Artist of the Year. | |
| Macbeth | Lady Macbeth | Old Vic Theatre, London. | ||
| Habeas Corpus | Muriel Wicksteed | A comedy stage play first performed at the Lyric Theatre (West End, London), with Alec Guinness and Margaret Courtenay in the lead roles. | ||
| Cards on the Table | Ariadne Oliver | Peter Dews | Adapted to the stage by Leslie Darbon from Agatha Christie's novel, at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1981. | |
| 42nd Street | Maggie Jones | Gower Champion | Musical that premiered on 8 August 1984, at the Royal Drury Lane Theatre (West End, London). | |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Aldwych Theatre, London. | |||
| Follies | Hattie Walker | Mike Ockrent | London revival, starring Diana Rigg, which ran for 644 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre (West End, London). | |
| The Musical Comedy murders of 1940 | Elsa von Grossenkneuten | Peter Fargo | A John Bishop comedy spoof, that premiered at the Greenwich Theatre, London. · | |
| Look Look | Michael Frayn | |||
| Show Boat | Parthy Ann Hawks | Ian Judge | A Royal Shakespeare Company revival, at the London Palladium (West End, London). |
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