Frances de la Tour

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Frances de la Tour, 2016

Frances de la Tour (born July 30, 1944 in Bovingdon , Hertfordshire , England ) is a British actress with French ancestors.

Life

Frances de la Tour is the daughter of Moyra (née Fessas) and Charles de la Tour. She attended the French girls' high school Lycée Français in London and the Drama Center London drama school . She then became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1965, where she studied with Michel Saint-Denis . For the next six years she took on roles in many plays, which got bigger and bigger. Her theater roles include Hoyden in The Fallback and the Virtue Endangered by John Vanbrugh and Helena in Peter Brook's version of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream .

Frances de la Tour has also worked as a television and screen actress since the 1970s. In the UK, she made a name for herself from 1974 with her lead role in the sitcom Rising Damp . Among other things, she made international fame for the role of the French headmistress Olympe Maxime in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire .

Frances de la Tour is the sister of actor and screenwriter Andy de la Tour, and was briefly married to playwright Tom Kempinski . She has a son and a daughter. She is a socialist and was politically active in the forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party , the Workers Revolutionary Party , in the 1970s .

Awards

For her stage roles, de la Tour has received three Laurence Olivier Awards . In 2006, she won the US Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mrs. Lintott in the Broadway production of Alan Bennett's The History Boys . In 2007 de la Tour was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for the same role in the film adaptation of the play , but the award went to Jennifer Hudson .

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

Television films

  • 1970: Country Dance
  • 1970: Every Home Should Have One
  • 1972: Our Miss Fred
  • 1977: Wombling Free
  • 1977: Maggie: It's Me
  • 1980: Rising Damp
  • 1981: Duet for One
  • 1985: Murder with Mirrors
  • 1987: Clem
  • 1991: Bejeweled
  • 1993: Genghis Cohn
  • 2017: Man in an Orange Shirt

TV Shows

  • 1971: The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine
  • 1974–1976: Play for Today (two episodes)
  • 1974–1978: Rising Damp (24 episodes)
  • 1976: Crown Court (one episode)
  • 1977: The Galton & Simpson Playhouse (one episode)
  • 1978: Leave It to Charlie (one episode)
  • 1980: Flickers
  • 1982: ITV Playhouse (one episode)
  • 1983: The Bounder (one episode)
  • 1984: Ellis Island
  • 1986: Unnatural Causes (one episode)
  • 1988: A Kind of Living (one episode)
  • 1993: Every Silver Lining
  • 1993: Stay Lucky (one episode)
  • 1994: Downwardly Mobile
  • 1996: Cold Lazarus (four episodes)
  • 1997: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (five episodes)
  • 1998: Heartbeat (one episode)
  • 2003: Born and Bred (one episode)
  • 2004: Agatha Christie's Poirot (one episode)
  • 2004: Waking the Dead (an episode)
  • 2005: Sensitive Skin (one episode)
  • 2006: Agatha Christie's Marple (one episode)
  • 2006: New Tricks - The Crime Specialists (an episode: Old Dogs )
  • 2006: 3 lbs (one episode)
  • 2013–2016: Vicious (14 episodes)
  • 2016: Outlander (4 episodes)
  • 2018: Vanity Fair (mini-series, three episodes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frances de la Tour biography. In: filmreference.com. Retrieved October 2, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME De la Tour, Frances
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bovingdon , Hertfordshire , England , United Kingdom