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Actress Margaret Tyzack passes away

Actress Margaret Tyzack passes away

The veteran actress Margaret Tyzack has passed away. She was 79.

She had enjoyed a successful career which spanned stage, screen and television.

In the late 1960s she starred in the landmark television drama, The Forsyte Saga, on the BBC alongside Eric Porter and Susan Hampshire.

She appeared in two of Stanley Kubrick’s best films, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and A Clockwork Orange (1971), while more recently was seen in Woody Allen’s Match Point (2005).

Her stage successes included Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, for which she won an Olivier award in London, and a Tony award for Lettice And Lovage on Broadway.

She had appeared briefly in the BBC soap EastEnders in early 2011, but withdrew after one week due to ill health.

Ms. Tyzack was appointed O.B.E. in 1970 and was made C.B.E. in the 2010 New Year Honours.

 

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