Helen Haye
Helen Haye ( born August 28, 1874 in Assam, India, † September 1, 1957 in London; actually Helen Hay ) was a British theater and film actress.
Life
Helen Haye, who came to India in 1874 to the world, worked as a Latin teacher before turning to acting. 1898 she gave her theater debut in the UK and then went to the theater companies of Frank Benson and Herbert Beerbohm Tree on tour. In London she appeared among others in 1911 as Gertrude in Shakespeare's Hamlet on. Also roles in plays by Ibsen, Shaw and TS Eliot were among her extensive repertoire. From 1925, she was also seen several times on Broadway. Already from 1916 to 1921 she appeared in silent films, but until the end of the 1920s she was a regular front of the camera used. As the wife of the professor, she starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps ( The 39 Steps, 1935). In the British film adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1948 ) with Vivien Leigh in the title role, she played the Countess Vronskaya. Other film roles were the Duchess of York, next to Leigh's husband Laurence Olivier in the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III. (1955 ) and Lady Catherine de Bourgh in 1952 in a BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. On stage, she stood for the last time in 1953 as the mother of the last Tsar, in a production by Marcelle Maurettes piece Anastasia. In addition, Haye has taught acting at the Lady Benson 's School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where the later drama sizes John Gielgud and Charles Laughton were among her students. With Laughton was also for the comedy master of the house I am ( Hobson 's Choice, 1954) together in front of the camera.
Helen Haye, who was married to Ernest Attenborough, died in 1957 at the age of 83 years in a London nursing home.