Annis, Francesca (1944–)

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Annis, Francesca (1944–)

English actress. Born May 14, 1944, in London, England; children: (with Patrick Wiseman) 3.

Made film debut in The Cat Gang (1958); starred in The Eyes of Annie Jones (1964); other films include Murder Most Foul (1964), The Pleasure Girls (1965), Run with the Wind (1966), The Walking Stick (1970), The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971), Krull (1983), Dune (1984), Under the Cherry Moon (1986) and Onegin (1999); on tv, portrayed Estella in "Great Expectations" (1967), Lillie Langtry in "Edward the King" (1975), Emma Bovary in "Madame Bovary" (1975), Lillie Langtry in "Lillie" (1978), Lily Amberville in "I'll Take Manhattan" (1987), Paula Croxley in "Inside Story" (1988), Angela Berridge in "Between the Lines" (1993), Anna Fairley in "Reckless" (1997) and Margrethe Bohr in "Copenhagen" (2002).

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