Celia Johnson
Known For
Acting
Born
1908-12-18 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
Died
1982-04-26
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE (18 December 1908 – 25 April 1982) was a British actress. She began her stage acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End and Broadway productions. She also appeared in several films, including the romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for BAFTA Awards on five occasions, and won twice, for her work in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), and for the television production Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, a BBC Play for Today broadcast in 1973. Much of her later work was for television, and she continued performing in theatre for the rest of her life. She died suddenly from a stroke. Description above from the Wikipedia article Celia Johnson licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Play for Today
as Mrs. Palfrey
BBC Play of the Month
as Mrs. Alving
BBC Play of the Month
as Judith Bliss
BBC Play of the Month
as Sheila
BBC Play of the Month
as Eloise
BBC Play of the Month
as Madame Ranyevskaya
Omnibus
as Ellen Edgeworth
Brief Encounter
as Laura Jesson
This Happy Breed
as Ethel Gibbons
Les Misérables
as Sister Simplice
Love Affair
as Mrs Hobbish
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
as Miss Mackay
In Which We Serve
as Mrs. Kinross / Alix
Number 10
as Mrs. Gladstone
Romeo and Juliet
as Nurse
A Kid for Two Farthings
as Joanna
The Hostage Tower
as Mrs. Wheeler
The Captain's Paradise
as Maud St. James
The Holly and the Ivy
as Jenny Gregory
The Good Companions
as Miss Trant