Babette Louisa Valerie Hobson was a British actress whose film career spanned the 1930s to the early 1950s.
10 Facts About Valerie Hobson
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In 1935, aged 17, Valerie Hobson appeared as Baroness Frankenstein in Bride of Frankenstein with Boris Karloff and Colin Clive.
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Valerie Hobson played opposite Henry Hull that same year in Werewolf of London, the first Hollywood werewolf film.
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Valerie Hobson's last starring role was in the original London production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play The King and I, which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on 8 October 1953.
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Valerie Hobson played Mrs Anna Leonowens opposite Herbert Lom's King.
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In 1952, Valerie Hobson divorced her first husband, film producer Anthony Havelock-Allan.
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Valerie Hobson's eldest son, Simon Anthony Clerveaux Havelock-Allan, was born in May 1944 with Down's syndrome, and died in January 1991.
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Valerie Hobson's middle child, Mark Havelock-Allan, was born on 4 April 1951 and became a judge.
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Valerie Hobson's youngest child is the author David Profumo was born on 16 October 1955), who wrote Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir (2006 and about the scandal.
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Valerie Hobson was portrayed by Deborah Grant in the film Scandal, by Joanna Riding in Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical Stephen Ward the Musical, which opened at the Aldwych Theatre on 19 December 2013, and by Emilia Fox in the BBC mini-series The Trial of Christine Keeler in 2019.