Si vous aimez cette personne, faites-le savoir !
Nom de naissance Ethel McGlinchy
Naissance 20 janvier 1904
Mort 28 février 1990 (à 86 ans)
Fabia Drake OBE (20 January 1904 – 28 February 1990) was a British actress whose professional career spanned almost 73 years during the 20th century.
Drake was born in Herne Bay, Kent. Her first professional role, in a film, was in Fred Paul's Masks and Faces (1917), and her last role was as the inimitable, irresistible Madame de Rosemonde in Miloš Forman's Valmont (1989).
Drake was a lifelong friend of Laurence Olivier.
Biographie
She married Maxwell Turner, a barrister-at-law and brother of John Hastings Turner the dramatist of her two plays with Marie Tempest, in December 1938. Their only child, a daughter Deirdre, was born in March 1940.
Selected filmography
London Belongs to Me (1948)
White Corridors (1951)
Young Wives' Tale (1951)
Isn't Life Wonderful! (1953)
Fast and Loose (1954)
Not Wanted on Voyage (1957)
The Good Companions (1957)
Girls at Sea (1958)
Operation Bullshine (1959)
Seven Keys (1961)
What a Whopper (1961)
A Nice Girl Like Me (1969)
Tam-Lin (1970)
Got It Made (1974)
A Room with a View (1985)
Valmont (1989)
Selected television
Persuasion (1960)
Doctor At Large (1971) Episode 10, Upton Sells Out?
The Pallisers (1977)
The Jewel in the Crown (1984)
Inspector Morse episode Last Bus to Woodstock (1988)
Autobiography
Blind Fortune published by William Kimber (1978)
References
External links
Selected performances in the Theatre Archive, University of Bristol
Fabia Drake on Internet Movie Database
Le plus souvent avec