Anna Massey

Anna Raymond Massey was an English actress of film, television and the stage. She became known for Michael Powell's Peeping Tom in 1960, playing a woman drawn to a suspected killer. Anna Massey appeared nude in Frenzy, the Alfred Hitchcock thriller from 1972. She was born on 11 August 1937 and died on 3 July 2011. Her best-known television role was Edith Hope in Hotel du Lac, the 1986 adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel. That part earned her a BAFTA for Best Actress, and co-star Julia McKenzie said it suited her perfectly. On stage, she won a 1982 Laurence Olivier Award for her supporting role in The Importance of Being Earnest. Over her career she played well over a hundred character roles in British film and television.