Celia Johnson
Acting
Born: 1908-12-18 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
Biography
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 at age 73. Description above from the Wikipedia article Celia Johnson licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Play for Today
Mrs. Palfrey
Omnibus
Ellen Edgeworth
BBC Play of the Month
Mrs. Alving
BBC Play of the Month
Judith Bliss
BBC Play of the Month
Sheila
BBC Play of the Month
Eloise
BBC Play of the Month
Madame Ranyevskaya
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Nurse
The Wednesday Play
Countess Isabel von Reger
ITV Playhouse
Miss Hobish
Centre Play
La Comtesse de Chemaille
Brief Encounter
Laura Jesson
Number 10
Mrs Gladstone (Anne MacKenzie Robertson)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Miss Mackay
This Happy Breed
Ethel Gibbons
In Which We Serve
Mrs. Kinross / Alix
Les Misérables
Sister Simplice
A Kid for Two Farthings
Joanna
Romeo and Juliet
Nurse
The Hostage Tower
Mrs. Wheeler
The Captain's Paradise
Maud St. James
The Cherry Orchard
Madame Ranevskaya
The Dame of Sark
Sybil Hathaway
The Potting Shed
Mrs Califer
Staying On
Lucy Smalley
The Holly and the Ivy
Jenny Gregory
Letter from Home
Mrs Taylor
A Bolt of Lightning
Mary Otis
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
The Astonished Heart
Barbara Faber
The Good Companions
Miss Trant
All's Well That Ends Well
Countess of Rousillon
The Emperor's New Hat
La Comtesse de Chemaille
I Believe in You
Matty Matheson
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Mrs. Palfrey