Anna Massey
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Anna Massey 🇬🇧

Anna Raymond Massey
Actress, BAFTA Winner, Hitchcock Star, CBE
Born Aug 11, 1937 🇬🇧 Thakeham, Great Britain
Passed Away Jul 03, 2011 London, United Kingdom
Lifespan 73 years old
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"Courage in acting means letting the audience see the small, quiet sadnesses inside yourself."

Archival Overview

Acclaimed English actress who won the BAFTA TV Award for Hotel du Lac and starred in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy.

Biographical Record

Anna Raymond Massey was the daughter of Canadian actor Raymond Massey and English actress Adrianne Allen. She made her West End stage debut at age seventeen in 'The Reluctant Debutante' and starred in Michael Powell's psychological thriller 'Peeping Tom' (1960).

Massey achieved cinema prominence as the tragic barmaid Babs Milligan in Alfred Hitchcock's London thriller 'Frenzy' (1972). In 1986, she gave an indelible performance as lonely novelist Edith Hope in the BBC adaptation of Anita Brookner's 'Hotel du Lac', winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress. She was appointed CBE in 2005.

Key Life Milestones

1972

Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy

Starred in Hitchcock's acclaimed London murder thriller as the sympathetic pub worker Babs Milligan.

1986

BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress

Won the British Academy Television Award for her leading performance in Hotel du Lac.

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