Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of the staunch Mrs. Maudsley in "The Go-Between" (1971), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress. After performing in local theatre, she auditioned for, and won, the lead role of Dorothy in the 1938 production of "Laugh With Me" and for the next three decades she went on to flourish as a versatile character actress. Often typecast as a gold-digger, businesswomen, playgirl, debutante, society figure, empress, love interest, secretary, eccentric, busybody, wife, mother, old maid, or matriarch, she appeared in leading roles in over 30 films. Some of her motion picture appearances include "The Winslow Boy" (1948), "Bonnie Prince Charlie" (1948), "Under Capricorn" (1949), "The Astonished Heart" (1950), "The Elusive Pimpernel" (1950), "Calling Bulldrog Drummond" (1951), "Home at Seven" (1952), "The Holly and The Ivy" (1952), "The Good Die Young" (1954), "The Teckman Mystery" (1954), "Carrington V.C." (1954), "The Constant Husband" (1955), "The Passionate Stranger" (1957), "The Sound and the Fury" (1959), "Waltz of the Toreadors" (1962), "The Best Man" (1964), "The Loved One" (1965), "7 Women" (1966), "The Madwoman of Chaillot" (1969), "X, Y, and Zee" (1972), "Lady Caroline Lamb" (1972), "Bequest to the Nation" (1973), "From Beyond the Grave" (1974), "Galileo" (1975), and "Trial by Combat" (1976). On television, she became a household name between two continents, appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Sunday Night Theatre," "ITV Play of the Week," "Theatre Royal," "Suspicion," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Dupont Show of the Month," "Ben Casey," "Burke's Law," "The F.B.I.," "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.," "A Touch of Venus," "Play of the Month," "Armchair Theatre," "The Upper Crusts," and "Space: 1999". She also headlined on Broadway appearing in such well-known productions as "Great Expectations," "King Henry," "Uncle Vanya," "The Critic," "Oedipus Rex," "Separate Tables," "The Night of the Iguana," "Much Ado About Nothing," "Tchin-Tchin," "The Chinese Prime Minister," "Slapstick Tragedy," and "The Little Foxes." During her career, she was married to publisher Max Reinhardt and actors Laurence Harvey and Michael Wilding (all unions ended in divorce and were childless). She was nominated for five Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play winning two in 1957 and 1962 respectively, was appointed as an Order of the British Empire in 1974, held dual citizenship between the United Kingdom and United States, and was a regular parishioner of the Episcopal church. Upon the release of her last major film in 1976, she died the first of that year from complications of cancer.