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Georgina Hale (born 4 August 1943) is an award-winning English actress notable for many stage, film and television appearances; often in the works of director Ken Russell and writer Simon Gray. She is perhaps best known for her BAFTA-winning performance as Alma Mahler in the 1974 film, Mahler.
In 2010, Hale was featured in an article in the British newspaper The Guardian, where she was ranked third in a list of ten great character actors in British television.
Hale was born in Ilford, England, to George Robert Hale and Dorothy (née Fordham). Poorly educated as a child, Hale was unable to... MORE
Georgina Hale (born 4 August 1943) is an award-winning English actress notable for many stage, film and television appearances; often in the works of director Ken Russell and writer Simon Gray. She is perhaps best known for her BAFTA-winning performance as Alma Mahler in the 1974 film, Mahler.
In 2010, Hale was featured in an article in the British newspaper The Guardian, where she was ranked third in a list of ten great character actors in British television.
Hale was born in Ilford, England, to George Robert Hale and Dorothy (née Fordham). Poorly educated as a child, Hale was unable to read or write for many years. As a teenager, she worked as an apprentice hairdresser and studied acting at a Stanislavski Method studio in London, before being accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
An accomplished stage actress, Hale made her professional debut at Stratford as a walk-on. She subsequently appeared in rep at Canterbury, Windsor and Ipswich; then at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1967, where her parts included the title role in Gigi, and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. At the Thorndike Theatre in Leatherhead in October 1975 she played Liza Doolittle in Pygmalion, followed by an LESS
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