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Jennifer Mary Hilary (born 14 December 1942, Frimley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom — died 6 August 2008, London, England, United Kingdom) was a British actress of stage, film and television. Her first acclaimed stage performance was as "Milly" in Henry James' The Wings of the Dove, which marked her debut on the West End.
Hilary trained at RADA, and began her acting career with the Liverpool Playhouse in April 1961. Her first role was as Nina in The Seagull. She would go on to play such characters as Lady Teazle (The School for Scandal), Isabel (The Enchanted), Cilla Curtis (Amateur... MORE
Jennifer Mary Hilary (born 14 December 1942, Frimley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom — died 6 August 2008, London, England, United Kingdom) was a British actress of stage, film and television. Her first acclaimed stage performance was as "Milly" in Henry James' The Wings of the Dove, which marked her debut on the West End.
Hilary trained at RADA, and began her acting career with the Liverpool Playhouse in April 1961. Her first role was as Nina in The Seagull. She would go on to play such characters as Lady Teazle (The School for Scandal), Isabel (The Enchanted), Cilla Curtis (Amateur Means Lover) and Cecily Cardew (The Importance of Being Earnest). She went on to act with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
She made her Broadway debut in Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal in 1963. The following year she played "Zoe" at the West End in James Saunders' A Scent of Flowers. Michael Redgrave included her in the cast of Turgenev's A Month in the Country in 1965. She went on to play "Sasha" in Chekhov's Ivanov at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway the following year.
In 1967, back in London, she played "Ginny" in the hit production of Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking. Other appearances in LESS
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