1. Maxine Audley was an English theatre and film actress.
16 Facts About Maxine Audley
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Maxine Audley made her professional stage debut in July 1940 at the Open Air Theatre.
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Maxine Audley appeared in more than 20 films, the first of which was the 1948 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina.
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Maxine Audley's parents were Henry Julius Hecht and Katherine Arkandy, a coloratura soprano.
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Maxine Audley trained for the stage at the Tamara Daykharhanova School in New York City and the London Mask Theatre School.
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Maxine Audley made her first professional stage appearance in July 1940 at the Open Air Theatre in a walk-on role in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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From 1940 to 1942, Maxine Audley performed with repertory companies in Tonbridge, Maidenhead and Birmingham.
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Maxine Audley again performed at the Open Air Theatre in 1942 and 1943, appearing in such roles as Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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From 1948 to 1949, Maxine Audley performed in repertory theatre at the Nottingham Playhouse.
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Maxine Audley continued to work with this company throughout her career, appearing with them again for their 1955 and 1957 seasons.
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Maxine Audley portrayed Tamora in the 1957 production of Titus Andronicus, a role that she would later list as one of her favourites, along with Amanda in Private Lives and Blanche du Bois in A Streetcar Named Desire.
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In 1961, Maxine Audley joined the Old Vic company, appearing as Constance in King John at the Royal Lyceum Theatre and the Old Vic.
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Maxine Audley played the role of Marina, an aristocrat's concubine, in Iris Murdoch's play The Servants and the Snow.
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Maxine Audley worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company again in 1977, playing Volumnia in Coriolanus in Stratford and at the Aldwych Theatre.
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Maxine Audley appeared in more than 20 films, her first appearance being in the 1948 adaptation of Anna Karenina.
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Maxine Audley then appeared in The Prince and the Showgirl, A King in New York, The Vikings, Dunkirk, Our Man in Havana and Peeping Tom.