Joanna Dunham

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Joanna Dunham (born May 6, 1936 in Luton , England - † November 25, 2014 ) was a British actress .

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Joanna Dunham was the daughter of draftsmen Peter Browning and Constance Amy (Young) Dunham. After attending Bedales School in Petersfield (Hampshire) she received a scholarship for stage design and painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London . Her teachers there included Thomas Monnington and Lucian Freud . In a university performance of the play Dark of the Moon in 1955 she played the role of Barbara Allen alongside Tom Courtenay . She then received an acting scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art .

Dunham made her debut as an actress at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1958 as sister Thérèse in The Deserters . In 1960 she made her debut in London at the Westminster Theater as Ellen in a production of the play Visit to a Small Planet by Gore Vidal . In her further career as a theater actress during the 1960s and 1970s, she played among others Vera in Turgenews A Month in the Country with Ingrid Bergman and Michael Redgrave and Elena in Kean by Jean-Paul Sartre and Desdemona in Othello .

Dunham first appeared on television in 1958 as Louka in a production by George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man . In the late 1960s, she played Sister Benedict on the television series Sanctuary with Fay Compton . By the 1970s, she had over a hundred roles in television series and films, including Love Among the Artists (1979) and Arlette in the third season of Van der Valk . Her best-known film role as Maria Magdalena in The Greatest Story of All Time (1965) she received on the recommendation of Marilyn Monroe . She had other roles in the horror film The House That Dripped Blood (1971) and as Lady Astor in Scandal (1988) about the Profumo affair .

Towards the end of her acting career, Dunham began painting again. She founded her own gallery and exhibited at the New English Art Club in London and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters .

Dunham was married to Henry Osborne since December 3, 1961. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1972. At times she lived with the set designer Ralph Koltai . In 1992 she married the writer Reggie Oliver , with whom she lived in Suffolk . She had two children: Abigail and Benedict.

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  1. ↑ Joanna Dunham obituary
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SURNAME Dunham, Joanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Luton
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2014