Anne Heywood
Anne Heywood ( born December 11, 1932 in Handsworth, Birmingham today; native Violet Pretty ) is a British actress.
The daughter of a violinist won the 1949 title of Miss Great Britain. She played with the Highbury Players Theatre in Birmingham and received, under her real name, in 1951, a first small film role in Maxie makes a career as a participant in a beauty contest.
It was not until 1955, she was seen in major roles. Especially in Italian productions she played passionate and tragic love women. In Carthage in flames, she played the love in a Roman soldier and slave Fulvia in The Fox a lesbian lovers, which earned her a nomination for a Golden Globe Award and a Laurel Award. In The Nun of Monza it represented a religious woman who is walled up alive as a punishment for a misstep, in The Nun of Verona, the leader of a criminal nuns clique that is eventually condemned to public drinking the hemlock cup.
Heywood was with the film producer Raymond Stross (1916-1988) married in 1991 and married name again.