Margaret Tyzack
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Margaret Tyzack OBE (born 19 September 1931), is a British actress.
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Tyzack was born in Essex, England, and grew up in West Ham (now Greater London). She attended the all-girls' St Angela's Ursuline School, Newham and a graduate of RADA.
Tyzack is noted for her classical stage roles, having joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962. She received an Olivier Award in 1982 for a revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and a Tony award in 1991 for the play Lettice and Lovage, in which she appeared in both the London and Broadway productions opposite Dame Maggie Smith.
In the early 1990s she portrayed Indiana Jones' tutor Helen Seymour in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. She appeared in two films directed by Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange. She also appeared as the first murder victim in Woody Allen's Match Point.
She is also remembered for her memorable roles in distinguished BBC television productions such as The Forsyte Saga (as Winifred), The First Churchills (as Queen Anne) and I, Claudius (as Antonia). She also played Clothilde Bradbury-Scott in the BBC adaptation of the Miss Marple story Nemesis.
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