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Adrienne Corri

Adrienne Corri

Birthday: 1930-11-13 | Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Adrienne Corri (born 13 November 1930 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is an actress of Italian parentage. She is probably best known for her role as the rape victim Mrs. Alexander in the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange, and for her appearances as Valerie in Jean Renoir's The River (1951) and as Lara's mother in David Lean's Dr. Zhivago (1965). She appeared in many horror and suspense films in the 1950s until the 1970s including Devil Girl from Mars, The Tell-Tale Heart, A Study in Terror and Vampire Circus. She also appeared as Therese Duval in Revenge of the Pink Panther. She also was in the 1969 science fiction movie Moon Zero Two and in the 1969 Twelfth Night, directed by John Sichel, as the Countess Olivia opposite Alec Guinness as Malvolio. Her numerous television credits include Angelica in Sword of Freedom (1958), a regular role in A Family At War and You're Only Young Twice, a 1971 television play by Jack Trevor Story, as Mena in the Doctor Who story "The Leisure Hive" and guest starred as the mariticidal Liz Newton in the UFO episode "The Square Triangle". She had a major stage career. There is a story that, when the audience booed on the first night of John Osborne's The World Of Paul Slickey, Corri responded with her own abuse: she raised two fingers to the audience and shouted "Go fuck yourselves". Corri has married and divorced twice, to the actors Daniel Massey (1961-1967) and Derek Fowlds. Her book The Search for Gainsborough (Jonathan Cape: 1984) contained much original research, including examination of banking records, and made a plausible case for 1726 as his birth year. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Adrianne Corri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1979
Measure for Measure

as    Mistress Overdone

1978
Revenge of the Pink Panther

as    Therese Douvier

1974
Madhouse

as    Faye

1972
Vampire Circus

as    Gypsy Woman

1971
A Clockwork Orange

as    Mrs. Alexander

1970
Twelfth Night

as    Countess Olivia

1970
Moon Zero Two

as    Liz

1969
The File of the Golden Goose

as    Angela 'Tina' Richmond

1969
Twelfth Night

as    Olivia

1967
The Viking Queen

as    Beatrice

1967
Africa: Texas Style!

as    Fay Carter

1967
Woman Times Seven

as    Mme. Lisiere

1966
A Study in Terror

as    Angela

1965
Doctor Zhivago

as    Amelia

1965
Bunny Lake Is Missing

as    Dorothy

1963
Lancelot and Guinevere

as    Lady Vivian

1963
Corridors of Blood

as    Rachel

1962
The Tell-Tale Heart

as    Betty Clare

1961
The Hellfire Club

as    Isobel

1957
Second Fiddle

as    Deborah

1957
The Big Chance

as    Diana Maxwell

1956
The Anatomist

as    Mary Paterson

1956
Behind the Headlines

as    Pam Barnes

1955
Devil Girl from Mars

as    Doris

1954
Meet Mr. Callaghan

as    Mayolo

1953
The Kidnappers

as    Kirsty

1951
The River

as    Valerie