15 Facts About Dorothy Tutin

Dame Dorothy Tutin was an English actress of stage, film and television.

Dorothy Tutin was made a CBE in 1967 and a Dame in 2000.

Dorothy Tutin's films included The Importance of Being Earnest, The Beggar's Opera, A Tale of Two Cities, Savage Messiah and The Shooting Party.

Dorothy Tutin was born in London on 8 April 1930, the daughter of John Tutin and Adie Evelyn Fryers, a Yorkshire couple who married the following year.

Dorothy Tutin was educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley, Surrey and studied for the stage at PARADA and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Dorothy Tutin made her first stage appearance at the Boltons on 6 September 1949, playing Princess Margaret of England in William Douglas-Home's play The Thistle and the Rose.

Dorothy Tutin joined the Bristol Old Vic Company in January 1950, appearing as Phebe in As You Like It, Anni in Denis Cannan's Captain Carvallo and Belinda in John Vanbrugh's The Provok'd Wife.

Dorothy Tutin first joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company for the 1958 season in Stratford-upon-Avon, appearing as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Viola in Twelfth Night and Ophelia in Hamlet.

Dorothy Tutin then played Polly Peachum to Laurence Olivier's Macheath in Peter Brook's film version of The Beggar's Opera.

Dorothy Tutin continued to divide her appearances among stage, TV and film, appearing in the title role of a television production of Jean Anouilh's Antigone and the film Cromwell as Queen Henrietta Maria, and then played Anne Boleyn in the BBC's series The Six Wives of Henry VIII, which starred Keith Michell in the title role.

Dorothy Tutin appeared in the Ken Russell film Savage Messiah, and was a panellist over many years on Face the Music.

Dorothy Tutin performed as the teacher Sarah Burton in the TV series South Riding, based on the novel South Riding by Winifred Holtby.

Dorothy Tutin starred as Mrs Alving in Yorkshire Television production of Ibsen's Ghosts.

Dorothy Tutin guest starred in an episode of the 1980s TV-series Robin of Sherwood as Lady Margaret of Gisbourne.

Dorothy Tutin was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by The Queen in 1967, and raised to Dame Commander in 2000.