Ann Todd

Ann Todd ( born January 24, 1909 in Hartford, Cheshire, † May 6, 1993 in London) was a British actress.

Ann Todd came from a Scottish family of Aberdeenshire, who moved it to England. At a young age she moved to London and took acting lessons. First, they played at the theater and from the mid-1930s and in film. One of her first major roles they had in 1938 in South Riding alongside Ralph Richardson as his wife. Their most successful period they had after the Second World War. In 1945, she filmed the movie The Seventh Veil at the side of James Mason and witnessed the peak of her career when she was allowed to play in 1947 starring in The Paradine Case with Alfred Hitchcock directed a partner of Gregory Peck. With the filming of The Great Passion she fell in her future husband David Lean, the director was then also her most important. They married in 1949. Marriage but was divorced in 1957. With the separation of David Lean her career came to an end as a film actress. During the 1950s, Todd starred in several Shakespeare productions at the Old Vic Theatre in London, and began a second career as a producer of documentary films during the 1960s. In 1980, her autobiography was published under the title The Eighth Veil.

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