Audrey Dalton
Audrey Dalton ( born January 21, 1934 in Dublin) is an Irish actress.
Life
Audrey Dalton was born in 1934 as the daughter of Emmet Dalton, a film distributor, in Dublin. Even as a child she wanted to be an actress and practiced as such in numerous school plays. She played with 13 years among other things, Antigone in Sophocles' tragedy of the same name. After she and her family moved at the age of 17 years to London, where she received her degree, she enrolled at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. During a theater performance, she was two years later discovered by an employee of Paramount Pictures, who invited her to an audition. She got a contract with Paramount, which she initially in Hollywood film The Girls of Pleasure Iceland (1953 ) turned and was then loaned out to 20th Century Fox. There she played in Henry Koster's My Cousin Rachel ( My Cousin Rachel, 1952) in addition to Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton, as well as in the sinking of the Titanic ( Titanic, 1953), the daughter of Barbara Stanwyck. In 1958 she was seen in a supporting role in Delbert Mann's award-winning ensemble film Separated from bed and board ( Separate Tables ), in which Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven and Burt Lancaster played the lead roles.
Starting in 1956, Audrey Dalton worked mainly for the American television and entered inter alia in series like Bonanza (1962), Gunsmoke ( Gunsmoke, 1963) and The Wild Wild West ( Wild Wild West, 1966) on. In 1959, she returned in the meantime returned to Ireland to take a lead role for co-founded by her father production company Ardmore Studios in the film This Other Eden. In the late 1970s, she retired from show business.
From 1953 to 1977 she was married to the Assistant Director James H. Brown, with whom she has two daughters and three sons. Since 1979 she is with the engineer Rod. F. Simenz married.