Adrienne Corri

Adrienne Corri is a Scottish actress of Italian parentage with a long screen and stage career. She became known as Valerie in Jean Renoir's The River (1951) and as Lara's mother in Dr. Zhivago (1965). Adrienne Corri appeared nude as Mrs. Alexander in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). She was born on November 13, 1930, in Scotland. From the 1950s to the 1970s she made horror films like Devil Girl from Mars and Vampire Circus. In 1969 she played Countess Olivia in Twelfth Night opposite Alec Guinness and also starred in Moon Zero Two. On television she played Mena in the Doctor Who story The Leisure Hive. Her 1984 book The Search for Gainsborough argued that the painter was born in 1726.