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Billie Honor Whitelaw CBE (Coventry, 6 de junho de 1932 - Northwood, 21 de dezembro de 2014) foi uma atriz inglesa. Trabalhou em estreita colaboração com o dramaturgo irlandês Samuel Beckett por 25 anos e foi considerada um dos principais intérpretes de suas obras.
- Reino Unido
- 21 de dezembro de 2014 (82 anos), Northwood
- Peter Vaughan, Robert Muller
- 6 de junho de 1932, Coventry
- Early Life
- Film Career
- Theatre and Beckett
- Television Career
- Personal Life
- Death
- Honours
- External Links
Whitelaw was born on 6 June 1932 in Coventry, Warwickshire,[a] the daughter of Frances Mary (née Williams) and Gerry Whitelaw. She had one sister, Constance, who was 10 years older. Whitelaw grew up in a working class part of Bradford and later attended Grange Girls' Grammar School in Bradford.[citation needed] At age 11, she began performing as a ...
Whitelaw made her film debut in The Sleeping Tiger (1954), followed by roles in Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) and Hell Is a City (1960). Whitelaw soon became a regular in British films of the 1950s and early 1960s. In her early film work, she specialised in blousy blondes and secretaries, but her dramatic range began to emerge by the late 1960s....
In 1963, Billie Whitelaw met Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. She and Beckett enjoyed an intense professional relationship until his death in 1989. He wrote many of his more experimental plays especially for her, referring to Whitelaw as "a perfect actress". Whitelaw became Beckett's muse, as he created, reworked and revised each play while she phy...
Whitelaw also appeared frequently on television and won acclaim for her work. A very early TV appearance was in the first series of the long-running BBC1 police series Dixon of Dock Green (1955), as Mary Dixon, daughter of George (Jack Warner). She also appeared as a woman who tries to join Robin Hood's outlaw band in a 1957 episode of The Adventur...
Whitelaw was married to the actor Peter Vaughan from 1952 to 1966 then to the writer and drama critic Robert Muller, with whom she had a son, until his death in 1998. Her autobiography Billie Whitelaw... Who He? was published by St. Martin's Pressin 1996.
Having divided her time between a home in Hampstead, north London, and a cottage near Glemsford in Suffolk, Whitelaw spent the last four years of her life as a resident of Denville Hall, the actors' retirement and nursing home in Northwood, Hillingdon. She died there following a bout of pneumoniaon 21 December 2014 at the age of 82.
Whitelaw was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in the 1991 Birthday Honours.
Billie Whitelaw at IMDbVideo of Billie Whitelaw performing Beckett's Not IBillie Whitelaw at the BFI's Screenonline22 de dez. de 2014 · Morreu em Londres neste domingo, 21, a atriz Billie Whitelaw. A intérprete da babá demoníaca Mrs. Baylock em A Profecia , de Richard Donner, tinha 82 anos. A informação foi divulgada pelo ...
21 de dez. de 2014 · Do G1, em São Paulo. A atriz Billie Whitelaw, que atuou no clássico filme de terror "A profecia", morreu neste domingo (21), em Londres, aos 82 anos, segundo declaração do seu filho à emissora britânica BBC.
22 de dez. de 2014 · A atriz Billie Whitelaw morreu neste domingo (21) em Londres, aos 82 anos de idade, segundo informações do filho à emissora BBC. Ela é conhecida pela atuação nos filmes A Profecia, Os implacáveis…
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22 de dez. de 2014 · A atriz britânica Billie Whitelaw, conhecida pelo trabalho com o escritor e dramaturgo irlandês Samuel Beckett, morreu no domingo aos 82 anos, revelou o filho à BBC.
