1. Elizabeth Margaret Ross MacLennan was a Scottish actress, writer and radical popular theatre practitioner.
13 Facts About Elizabeth MacLennan
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Elizabeth MacLennan was born in Glasgow, Scotland, daughter of Sir Hector MacLennan and Isabel Margaret.
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Elizabeth MacLennan's father was a gynaecologist, president of the Royal Society of Medicine; her mother was a physician and public health professional.
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Elizabeth MacLennan's older brother Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart, was a politician; her younger brother David MacLennan was a fellow theatre professional.
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Elizabeth MacLennan attended Laurel Bank girls' school in Glasgow, and the Benenden School in Kent.
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Elizabeth MacLennan read modern history at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she became active in experimental theatre productions, sharing the bill with fellow students Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Ken Loach.
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Elizabeth MacLennan studied acting at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
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Elizabeth MacLennan performed in plays with 7:84 throughout the 1970s and 1980s, in such classics of British popular theatre as The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, Little Red Hen, Blood Red Roses, Trees in the Wind and Men Should Weep.
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Elizabeth MacLennan starred in McGrath's last play, HyperLynx, directed by her daughter Kate McGrath.
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Elizabeth MacLennan participated in one of the earliest known examples of an interracial kiss on television in Britain during You in Your Small Corner, a Granada Play of the Week written by Barry Reckord and broadcast live on 5 June 1962, in which she kissed Jamaican actor Lloyd Reckord.
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Elizabeth MacLennan married playwright, screenwriter, and director John McGrath in 1962.
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Elizabeth MacLennan was widowed in 2002, and she died of leukaemia on 23 June 2015, in London, aged 77 years.
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Elizabeth MacLennan's gravesite is with her husband's, in Rogart, Sutherland; their daughter Kate McGrath is a theatrical producer.