Geraldine McEwan
Geraldine McEwan ( born Geraldine McKeown; born May 9, 1932 in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England) is a British film and stage actress.
Life
Geraldine McEwan since the age of 14 on stage since she made her debut at the Theatre Royal in Windsor in 1946. 1950, a further four years later, she was already a popular actress in the famous London Theatre District West End. In the 1950s, McEwan was engaged on Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford- upon- Avon, before 1961 a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company was.
McEwan applies in England as popular Theateraktrice that convinced in plays like Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet and Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and came to the theater on tour, among other things after Moscow and Leningrad.
Her career in film and television began in 1953, and was initially limited to British films. One of its first known films was the drama film Henry V. in 1989, alongside Kenneth Branagh. Moreover, it remains film fans McEwan's representation of the sorceress Mortianna in the 1991 adventure film produced Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves in memory. 2004 McEwan was selected for the role of Miss Marple in Agatha Christie's Marple and stood until 2007 in 12 feature-length thrillers as the famous detective in front of the camera.
Geraldine McEwan should be appointed in 1986 to the Officer of the British Empire ( OBE), but what they gratefully declined. The same was true in 2002, when they wanted to raise it to the status of a lady.
She was married to the British film producer Hugh Cruttwell from 1953 until his death in August 2002, which was from 1965 to 1984 director of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. The couple had two children, of whom the son Greg Cruttwell worked as an actor in the 1990s.