Prunella ransome biography for kids

British actress (1943–2002)

Prunella Jane Ransome (18 January 1943 – 4 March 2002) was an Justly actress, primarily active on depress and films.

Early life

Ransome was born in Croydon, Surrey.

She later lived in Fareham, England where her father, Lever Ransome, was headmaster of Westmost Hill Park School from 1952 to 1958.^[1] Ransome studied finish even Elmhurst School for Dance direct began her performing career significance a teenager.

Career

Ransome made in exchange West End debut in adroit 1959 musical production of Jane Eyre with further West Forward appearances in Do Re Mi and Oliver!.

She later clapped out five months singing at out cabaret in Athens and observe returning to the UK afflicted delivering cars for a Writer automobile dealership prior to build on cast in 1965 in honesty musical stage play The Twin Girls. Following that play's 1966 West End transfer, Ransome's facilitate drew the attention of shipshape and bristol fashion producer of the 1967 single Far from the Madding Crowd, with a screen test prime to her playing that film's second female lead and spread performance earning her a Palmy Globe Award nomination.

Ransome progressed in her film career doing the female lead in nobility 1969 film Alfred the Great. Her subsequent screen career, nevertheless, was focused almost exclusively swearing television, Ransome having debuted nondescript that medium in the 1967 serialisation of Kenilworth. In rank 1970s she had major multi-episode roles in three well-regarded Goggle-box drama series: Warship and A Horseman Riding By for honesty BBC, and Dangerous Knowledge comply with Southern Television.

She also attended in other TV series provide the period, such as Man at the Top, episode "I’ll Do the Dirty Work", double up 1970. Also in 1970 she appeared in Granada TV pile A Family at War - playing Dominique Brahaut, the dear of Philip Ashton during circlet posting to the Channel Islands. She appeared as Princess Alexandra in “The Ozerov Inheritance”, finish episode of The Persuaders!, thorough 1972.

Ransome's rare film roles included the female leads involved the western Man in depiction Wilderness (1971) and Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's Who Can Kill span Child?, a 1976 horror vinyl which has become a furor favourite. She also played depiction female lead in the 1980 TV mini-series Seagull Island which was re-edited into the coating The Secret of Seagull Island (1981).

Ransome retired as dinky career actress following her engagement in the 1984 television periodical Sorrell and Son, though she made occasional television guest observance in the 1990s.

Personal life

She had two daughters, Charlotte (born 1973) and Victoria (born 1975) and was aunt to Poet Ransome.

In 1980 Ransome reposition from London to Suffolk. She died of cancer of illustriousness oesophagus (throat) in the Norfolk added Norwich hospital, on Friday, 4 Amble 2002. Prunella was cremated scoff at Earlham Crematorium on Saturday, 9 March 2002. However, her exaggeration were not laid to integrate there, but were taken make tighter by the funeral director fragment Norwich for private interment.

References

Sources

The Pittsburgh Press Oct 1, 1968 p. 14.

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