14 Facts About Barbara Jefford

For Ulysses, Jefford was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress.

Barbara Jefford was Olivier nominated in 1991 for playing Volumnia in Coriolanus at the Barbican.

Mary Barbara Jefford was born in Plymstock, Devon, the daughter of Elizabeth Mary Ellen and Percival Francis Jefford.

Barbara Jefford was brought up primarily in Somerset, and attended Weirfield School in Taunton.

Barbara Jefford attended the Hartly-Hodder School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal.

Barbara Jefford played Gwendoline in The Importance of Being Earnest, Beatrice in Shelley's The Cenci and Joan in George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, emulating her mentor and friend, Dame Sybil Thorndike.

Barbara Jefford entered a period of acting with Frank Hauser's Oxford Playhouse which included the first of her three Cleopatras, Racine's Phedre and Lina in Misalliance which transferred to the Criterion Theatre.

Barbara Jefford repeated many Shakespearean roles in her long career, appearing in 54 productions of all but four of his plays.

Barbara Jefford provided additional voice work in later Bond films, dubbing Molly Peters in Thunderball and Caroline Munro in The Spy Who Loved Me.

Barbara Jefford played Magda Goebbels in Hitler: The Last Ten Days.

Barbara Jefford appeared in several television dramas in the Play For Today series ; and in several other series.

Barbara Jefford has appeared in episodes of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Campion and the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries.

Barbara Jefford appeared in The Creeper, a 2010 episode of Midsomer Murders.

In 1965, Barbara Jefford was awarded the Officer of Order of the British Empire for her service to the theatre, becoming the youngest civilian recipient of the award to that date.