10 Facts About Margaret Leighton

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Margaret Leighton, CBE was an English actress, active on stage and television, and in film.

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Margaret Leighton won an Emmy Award for a 1970 television version of Hamlet.

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Margaret Leighton won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in Separate Tables ; she won another Tony in that category for The Night of the Iguana, playing Hannah Jelkes opposite Bette Davis's Maxine Faulk.

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Margaret Leighton was nominated for Best Actress in a Play for Much Ado About Nothing and for Tchin-Tchin.

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Margaret Leighton had a noteworthy list of TV appearances, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ben Casey and Burke's Law.

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Margaret Leighton won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama for Hamlet and she was nominated for an Emmy in 1966 for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama for four episodes of Dr Kildare.

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Margaret Leighton received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the role.

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Margaret Leighton was married three times, to publisher Max Reinhardt from 1947 to 1955, to actor Laurence Harvey from 1957 to 1961, and to actor Michael Wilding from 1964 until her death.

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Margaret Leighton had no children by any of the marriages.

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Margaret Leighton died of multiple sclerosis in 1976, aged 53, in Chichester, Sussex.