Celia Johnson
Actor
Biography
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Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE (18 December 1908 – 25 April 1982) was a British actress.
She began her stage acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End and Broadway productions. She also appeared in several films, including the romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for BAFTA Awards on five occasions, and won twice, for her work in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), and for the television production Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, a BBC Play for Today broadcast in 1973.
Much of her later work was for television, and she continued performing in theatre for the rest of her life. She died suddenly from a stroke.
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Filmography
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
as Miss Mackay 1969
In Which We Serve
as Mrs. Kinross / Alix 1942
This Happy Breed
as Ethel Gibbons 1944
Les Misérables
as Sister Simplice 1978
The Holly and the Ivy
as Jenny Gregory 1952
A Kid for Two Farthings
as Joanna 1955
The Captain's Paradise
as Maud St. James 1953
I Believe in You
as Matty Matheson 1952
The Hostage Tower
as Mrs. Wheeler 1980
Romeo and Juliet
as Nurse 1978
The Astonished Heart
as Barbara Faber 1950
All's Well That Ends Well
as Countess of Rousillon 1981
Letter from Home
as Mrs Taylor 1941
Staying On
as Lucy Smalley 1980
The Cherry Orchard
as Madame Ranevskaya 1971
The Good Companions
as Miss Trant 1957