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5 unusual facts about Audrey Fildes


Audrey Fildes

Granddaughter of Victorian painter, Sir Luke Fildes, Audrey showed keen interest in acting while very young.

During her 20s she enjoyed an active acting career, appearing in such roles as Diana in Jean Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon (1950), directed by Peter Brook and costarring Paul Scofield.

In 1949, she played the role of Louis Mazzini's mother, who was ostracised by her aristocratic family, in the film Kind Hearts and Coronets.

Audrey Fildes (24 November 1922, Liverpool, Lancashire – 13 September 1997, Canada) was a British actress whose first film credit was the 1947 production While I Live.

While I Live

In 1922 in Cornwall, a prodigious young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan (Audrey Fildes) is struggling with the ending of a piano tone poem she is composing.



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