1. Francesca Annis was born on 14 May 1945 and is an English actress.
20 Facts About Francesca Annis
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Francesca Annis is known for television roles in Reckless, Wives and Daughters, Deceit, and Cranford.
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The Annises moved to Brazil when Francesca was one year old, and spent six years there, returning to England when she was seven.
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Francesca Annis was educated at a convent school, and trained in her early years as a ballet dancer, with training in the Russian style at the Corona Stage Academy.
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Francesca Annis began acting professionally in her teens, and made her film debut in The Cat Gang.
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Francesca Annis played Estella in a television adaptation of Great Expectations and presented children's television programmes.
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Francesca Annis garnered attention for her performance as Lady Macbeth in Roman Polanski's film version of Macbeth in which she performs the sleepwalking soliloquy nude.
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Francesca Annis played the "Widow of the Web" in the 1983 science fantasy film Krull, and starred as Lady Jessica in the 1984 David Lynch science fiction film Dune.
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Francesca Annis appeared as Tuppence with James Warwick as Tommy Beresford in the pilot film The Secret Adversary and the subsequent TV series, Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime.
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Francesca Annis played Jacqueline Kennedy in Onassis: The Richest Man in the World in 1988.
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Francesca Annis portrayed Mrs Wellington in the second film and directorial debut by Prince, Under The Cherry Moon.
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Francesca Annis pursued a stage career, playing leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, such as Luciana in Trevor Nunn's musical version of The Comedy of Errors and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet alongside Ian McKellen.
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At the Comedy Theatre between September 2005 and January 2006, Francesca Annis starred as Ruth in Epitaph for George Dillon with Joseph Fiennes.
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Francesca Annis returned to the stage in April 2009, to star as Mrs Conway in Rupert Goold's National Theatre revival of J B Priestley's Time and the Conways.
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Francesca Annis appeared in television productions in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s in series such as Edward the Seventh as Lillie Langtry, a role she reprised in Lillie ; Madame Bovary ; and Parnell and the Englishwoman, in which she played Kitty O'Shea.
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Francesca Annis played a major role in J C Wilsher's police drama Between the Lines from 1993 to 1994, as well as the miniseries Reckless and its 2000 sequel.
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Francesca Annis co-starred with Sir Michael Gambon and Dame Judi Dench as Lady Ludlow in the BBC1 costume-drama series Cranford.
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Francesca Annis was in a relationship with photographer Patrick Wiseman that began in 1974, raising three children, Charlotte, Taran, and Andreas.
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Francesca Annis began a relationship with Hamlet co-star Ralph Fiennes in 1995, ending her 23-year relationship with Wiseman in 1997; Fiennes in turn divorced his wife of four years, Alex Kingston.
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Francesca Annis is said to have "apologised to Wiseman" over their parting.