Pat Heywood

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Patricia Heywood (born August 1, 1931 in Gretna Green , Scotland ) is a British actress .

life and career

Pat Heywood was born to a Scottish engineer , one of five children . She completed her acting training at the Bristol Old Vic Theater School in Bristol. A longer theater career followed, including in London and Bristol. She first appeared on British television in 1958 in the television film The Castiglioni Brothers . Heywood made her cinema debut in 1968 at the age of 36 in Romeo and Juliet , directed by Franco Zeffirelli , where she took on the role of Juliet's wet nurse. Romeo and Juliet earned her a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress . She later made the films Il giovane Toscanini (1988) and Storia di una capinera (1993) with Zeffirelli .

In the following years, the plump-looking character actress was mainly cast in maternal, often warm-hearted roles. She played, among other things, the wife of Richard Attenborough played women murderer in John Christie, the women strangler of London (1971) by Richard Fleischer . In the 1970s and 1980s Heywood was seen in numerous British television productions, for example in 1978 as the servant Ellen Dean in a multi-part television adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel Sturmhöhe . Pat Heywood has been married to her fellow actor Oliver Neville (* 1929), who is the former headmaster of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , since 1965 .

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SURNAME Heywood, Pat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heywood, Patricia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Gretna Green , Scotland