Celia Johnson
Actor
Born December 18, 1908 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE (18 December 1908 – 25 April 1982) was a British actress. She began her stage acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End and Broadway productions. She also appeared in several films, including the romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for BAFTA Awards on five occasions, and won twice, for her work in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), and for the television production Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, a BBC Play for Today broadcast in 1973. Much of her later work was for television, and she continued performing in theatre for the rest of her life. She died suddenly from a stroke at age 73.
Filmography
Number 10
Mrs Gladstone (Anne MacKenzie Robertson)
The Potting Shed
Mrs Califer
All's Well That Ends Well
Countess of Rousillon
Staying On
Lucy Smalley
The Hostage Tower
Mrs. Wheeler
Les Misérables
Sister Simplice
Romeo and Juliet
Nurse
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Nurse
The Emperor's New Hat
La Comtesse de Chemaille
The Dame of Sark
Sybil Hathaway
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Mrs. Palfrey
Centre Play
La Comtesse de Chemaille
The Cherry Orchard
Madame Ranevskaya
Play for Today
Mrs. Palfrey
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Miss Mackay
Omnibus
Ellen Edgeworth
ITV Playhouse
Miss Hobish
BBC Play of the Month
Mrs. Alving
The Wednesday Play
Countess Isabel von Reger
The Good Companions
Miss Trant
A Kid for Two Farthings
Joanna
The Captain's Paradise
Maud St. James
The Holly and the Ivy
Jenny Gregory
I Believe in You
Matty Matheson
A Bolt of Lightning
Mary Otis
The Astonished Heart
Barbara Faber
Brief Encounter
Laura Jesson
This Happy Breed
Ethel Gibbons
In Which We Serve
Mrs. Kinross / Alix
Letter from Home
Mrs Taylor