Annabel Maule
Annabel Maule ( born September 8, 1922 in London) is a British actress.
Life
Margaret Annabel Maule was born as the daughter of Donovan Maule (1899-1982) and his wife Mollie Maule in the London Borough of Lambeth. Her father had been an officer (Major) in the British Army; her mother an actress. Maules parents moved in the interwar period, from the UK to Mombasa, Kenya to build there an independent colonial theater scene; this should be based on colonial officers and British, who were particularly returned after the Second World War, when settlers and farmers. 1948/1949 established Donovan / Donovan Maule Maule in Nairobi the Theatre Club, the first professional theater company of Kenya with full game mode. It later became the Donovan Maule Theatre (The Donovan Maule Theatre Ltd. ).
1948 Maule began her stage career as a theater actress in Kenya. Initially, she also still in the UK. In 1950, she played at the Stratford Festival in the comedy His Excellency Campbell Christie and Dorothy Christie next to Eric Portman. She performed at the 1952 founded Kenya National Theatre. In the 1970s and 1980s Maule director, actress and director was (including Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn ) at the Donovan Maule Theatre; she was criticized by staff and actors for their part, " tyrannical " management style. 1984 was forced to close for financial reasons, the Donovan Maule Theatre. Maule taught in the 1990s as a drama teacher at the Nairobi Theatre Academy. Maules career as a stage actress took a long time. Still in 2002, she joined the Phoenix Players Theatre in Nairobi in the play Striped Leopard by Oby Obyerodhyambo as white lady next to Sam on Madoka.
Maule took over since the late 1930s also film and television roles. In 1938 she made her film debut in a small role in the film comedy Save a Little sunshire. Later Maule worked mainly for television. In a television adaptation of the novel Wuthering Heights in 1948, she played the role of Isabella Linton. Frequently Maule was seen in television versions of plays, as in the BBC series BBC Sunday - Night Theatre. In 1956, she worked for this series in the play Dark Victory, in November 1959 in the play The Velvet Alley. Chance they also took roles in several British television series; However, their television appearances have included long pauses and remained largely sporadic.
Your last film role was in 1985 in the Maule filmed in Kenya feature film Out of Africa. She played Lady Byrne, the British Governor Joseph Aloysius Byrne (1871-1942) wife. In her brief scene when Baroness Karen Blixen (played by Meryl Streep ) in front of the governor falls to his knees, Maule intervenes as a woman of the governor, ranging Blixen 's hand and gives her her word to her husband for a place to settle for the use the root of the Kikuya.
Maule worked occasionally even for broadcasting. In 1954, she starred in a radio version of Shakespeare's Henry VIII drama in a small role.
Maule was appointed in 1975 to the members of the Order of the British Empire; so that their merits for the promotion of British theater were recognized in Kenya. Your family history Maule wrote in the autobiographical book The Theatre Neat equator. The Donovan Maule Story ( 2004) down.