1. Diana Marilyn Quick was born on 23 November 1946 and is an English actress.
16 Facts About Diana Quick
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Diana Quick grew up in Dartford, Kent, the third of four children.
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Diana Quick was greatly aided by her English teacher, who encouraged her to pursue acting.
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Diana Quick became a member of an amateur dramatic society in Crayford, Kent, while at school as well as appearing in many school productions.
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Diana Quick was the first female president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society.
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Diana Quick spent seven years researching a book about her paternal family's life in India, which was published in 2009 by Virago with the title A Tug on the Thread: From the British Raj to the British Stage.
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Diana Quick's great-grandfather served 23 years in the army in India before becoming a policeman, and her great-grandmother had to flee from the Indian Rebellion of 1857 after her father was killed.
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Diana Quick is perhaps best known for the role of Lady Julia Flyte in the television production of Brideshead Revisited.
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Diana Quick received an Emmy and British Academy Television Awards nomination for her work.
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Diana Quick has appeared in many theatre, film and television productions.
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Diana Quick made her stage debut in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London, in 1959.
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Diana Quick has appeared in many stage productions in the United Kingdom and the United States, including The Rivals, Hedda Gabler, Measure for Measure, The School for Scandal, Hay Fever, The Duchess of Malfi, Saint Joan, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Good Person of Szechwan.
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Diana Quick had played the same character as a younger woman in Alan Bennett's stageplay A Question of Attribution, one half of his Single Spies double bill.
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Diana Quick explained how she prepared for the television role:.
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Diana Quick was married to Scottish actor Kenneth Cranham from 1974 until they divorced in 1978.
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Diana Quick was one of several celebrities who endorsed the successful parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas at the 2015 general election.