28 Facts About Eleanor Bron

Eleanor Bron was born on 14 March 1938 and is an English stage, film and television actress, and an author.

Eleanor Bron has appeared in television series such as Yes Minister, Doctor Who and Absolutely Fabulous.

Eleanor Bron attended the North London Collegiate School and then Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read Modern Languages.

Eleanor Bron later characterised her time at Newnham as "three years of unparalleled pampering and privilege".

Eleanor Bron began her career in the Cambridge Footlights revue of 1959, titled The Last Laugh, in which Peter Cook appeared.

Eleanor Bron appeared in the films Two for the Road alongside Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn, and A Touch of Love with Sandy Dennis and Ian McKellen.

Eleanor Bron later appeared in film adaptations of Black Beauty, and A Little Princess.

Eleanor Bron collaborated with novelist and playwright Michael Frayn on the BBC programmes Beyond a Joke and Making Faces.

Eleanor Bron appeared in "Equal Opportunities", a 1982 episode of the BBC series Yes Minister, playing a senior civil servant in Jim Hacker's Department.

In 1979 Eleanor Bron appeared as Maggie Hartley, a stage actress accused of murder, in an episode of the popular British legal series Rumpole of the Bailey, entitled "Rumpole and the Show Folk", which starred Leo McKern in the title role.

Eleanor Bron appeared as Mary in The Day Christ Died, and played Mrs Barrymore in the 1983 TV movie The Hound of the Baskervilles which starred Ian Richardson as Sherlock Holmes.

Eleanor Bron appeared twice in the original series of Doctor Who.

Eleanor Bron had a brief comedic scene in the serial City of Death alongside John Cleese, which was at the suggestion of its co-writer Douglas Adams.

Eleanor Bron later appeared in the Doctor Who audio drama Loups-Garoux starring Peter Davison, in which she played the wealthy heiress Ileana de Santos.

Eleanor Bron played an art critic again in 1990, appearing in the BBC sketch comedy show French and Saunders in a parody of an Andy Warhol documentary.

Eleanor Bron played, via flashback, the recurring character of Patsy's mother, a woman who "scattered bastard babies across Europe like a garden sprinkler".

Eleanor Bron had a supporting role in the 1994 BBC ghost story The Blue Boy, and appeared in the BBC's biographical TV movie Saint-Ex in 1996.

In 1973 Eleanor Bron appeared in the West End musical The Card.

Eleanor Bron appeared in the role of an abbess in Howard Brenton's play In Extremis, staged at Shakespeare's Globe in 2007.

Eleanor Bron appeared in the dramatised version of Pedro Almodovar's film All About My Mother, which opened at the Old Vic theatre in the late summer of 2007.

Eleanor Bron gave the premiere performance of The Yellow Cake Revue, a series of pieces for voice and piano written by Peter Maxwell Davies in protest against uranium mining in the Orkney Islands.

Eleanor Bron has written and performed new verses for Camille Saint-Saens' The Carnival of the Animals.

Eleanor Bron has performed and recorded the female reciter part in William Walton's Facade with the Nash Ensemble.

In 1985 Eleanor Bron was selected, for her authoritative tone, to become "the voice of BT" and can still be heard on various British telephone error messages such as "The number you have dialled has not been recognised, please check and try again".

In 1998, Eleanor Bron appeared as Frau Luther in episode 2 "Stuckart" of the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Fatherland, a novel by Robert Harris.

Eleanor Bron appeared in the long-running British TV series Midsomer Murders as Lady Isobel DeQuetteville in the episode "The Dark Rider", first aired on ITV1 on 1 February 2012.

Eleanor Bron was the partner of the architect Cedric Price for many years until his death in 2003; they had no children.

Eleanor Bron is the author of several books, including Life and Other Punctures, a 1978 account of bicycling in France and Holland on a Moulton bicycle; and Cedric Price Retriever, an inventory of the contents of the bookshelves of her late partner, architect Cedric Price.