12 Facts About Nanette Newman

Nanette Newman was born on 29 May 1934 and is an English actress and author.

Nanette Newman appeared in nine films directed by her husband Bryan Forbes, including Seance on a Wet Afternoon, The Whisperers, Deadfall, The Stepford Wives and International Velvet, for which she won the Evening Standard Film Award for Best Actress.

Nanette Newman was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for another Forbes-directed film, The Raging Moon.

Nanette Newman's parents were in show business, with her father being a reputed circus strongman.

Nanette Newman made her first screen appearance at age 11 in the 1945 short Here We Come Gathering: A Story of the Kentish Orchards.

Nanette Newman appears in 1962 in the TV series Sir Francis Drake as Yana, a South American tribal native whose tribe is enslaved by the Spanish.

Nanette Newman acted with Forbes in The League of Gentlemen, which Forbes scripted, and went on to appear in most of the feature films that Forbes directed, including The L-Shaped Room, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, The Wrong Box, The Whisperers, Deadfall, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Raging Moon, The Stepford Wives and International Velvet.

Nanette Newman is from a variety background, acting on stage and appearing in television advertisements, including for Fairy Liquid.

Nanette Newman starred in the ITV sitcom Let There Be Love, which ran for two seasons, in 1982 and 1983.

Nanette Newman is the author of thirty children's books and six cookery books; winning a Cookbook of the Year Award with The Summer Cookbook, and presented a children's television cookery programme, Fun Food Factory, she appeared in the 1980s on TV-am, cooking during the show.

Nanette Newman met actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes in February 1953 on location at Marylebone railway shunting yards, while Forbes was co-starring in the film Wheel of Fate.

Nanette Newman came up on to the platform and introduced himself.