Maria Aitken
Maria Penelope Katharine Aitken ( born September 12, 1945 in Dublin) is an Irish film actress and screenwriter.
Life
Maria Aitken grew up in a family of politicians and aristocrats. Her father William Aitken sat from 1950 to 1965 for the constituency of Bury St Edmunds in the British Parliament. You three year older brother Jonathan Aitken was also parliamentarians and sat from 1974 to 1997 in the House of Commons. Her mother Penelope Aitken was one of a society woman, whose father John Loader Maffey 1926-1934 Governor General of the Sudan was. Maria Aitken is also a great-niece of Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook.
Aitken enjoyed a privileged education at Sherborne School for Girls in Dorset, before the St Anne 's College, Oxford visited in the mid- 1960s. Here it was also discovered by actor Richard Burton, who undertook Maria Aitken for his play Faustus.
When this was filmed in 1967 with Burton and Elizabeth Taylor with the title Doctor Faustus, Maria Aitken was able to star in a small supporting role - it was her debut as an actress. Aitken worked predominantly in British television series and movies with. In 1971 she was in Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland as Lady Bothwell front of the camera, the 1974 guest appearance followed in The Onedin Line. In 1984 it tried Aitken also as a screenwriter and so invented the sitcom Poor Little Rich Girls. However, the project revealed to be a flop, so that after only seven episodes, the series was discontinued. Your best-known film in which she starred as an actress, but should be A Fish Called Wanda, which was produced in 1988, and has been for what Aitken in 1989 was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1998, she stood at the side of Christopher Lee in Jinnah as Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley before the camera. After the turn of the millennium Aitken has shot with one exception, no more movies. In 2005 she could be seen in Stella's temptation on the side of Ian McKellen and Natasha Richardson in front of the camera.
Maria Aitken was married three times so far. In January 1968, she married actor Richard Durden; divorce followed three years later, your second marriage in 1971 she went in May 1972 with the actor Nigel Davenport.; from the marriage emerged in 1973, her son Jack Davenport, who was known for his role in Pirates of the Caribbean world. However, Aitken and Davenport left after nine years of marriage, in 1981, divorced. Maria Aitken is married to the writer Patrick McGrath since December 1991.