Rachel Roberts

Rachel Roberts was a Welsh actress known for her work on film and on stage. She became known through Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and This Sporting Life (1963). Rachel Roberts turns up in nude searches, but the clip from The Rehearsal shows underwear, not nudity. She was born on 20 September 1927 and died on 26 November 1980. In both of those early films she played the older mistress of the leading man. Each part won her the BAFTA for Best British Actress, and This Sporting Life brought an Academy Award nomination. Her later films included Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and Yanks (1979). On stage she won a Drama Desk Award in 1976 for Habeas Corpus.