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Lynne Maria Frederick (25 July 1954 – 27 April 1994) was an English film actress. In a career spanning ten years she made about thirty films or television drama appearances, but she is best remembered as the last wife of Peter Sellers. She was married twice after his death. Frederick was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, the daughter of Andrew and Iris Frederick. Iris became a casting director for Thames Television. Lynne's parents split up when she was 2, and she was brought up by her mother and her grandmother, Cecilia, at Market Harborough in Leicestershire. Having originally... MORE

Lynne Maria Frederick (25 July 1954 – 27 April 1994) was an English film actress. In a career spanning ten years she made about thirty films or television drama appearances, but she is best remembered as the last wife of Peter Sellers. She was married twice after his death. Frederick was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, the daughter of Andrew and Iris Frederick. Iris became a casting director for Thames Television. Lynne's parents split up when she was 2, and she was brought up by her mother and her grandmother, Cecilia, at Market Harborough in Leicestershire. Having originally aspired to becoming a teacher of mathematics and physics, she abandoned her academic pursuits for the stage, and made her film debut as Mary Custance in No Blade of Grass (1970) when she was just 16 years old. She then appeared a year later in the 1971 biographical film Nicholas and Alexandra, in which she played Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, second eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. However her best-known appearance came shortly afterwards when she played another historical character, Catherine Howard in Henry VIII and His Six Wives in 1972. Frederick would go on to pursue a LESS