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Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 1900 – 13 June 1969) was an Argentine-born British theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range of powerful characters. She is best remembered for her performance as Miss Havisham in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946).
Martita Hunt. Actress: Great Expectations. Popular British character actress known for her rich cluster of queens, dowagers, shrews and evildoers, Martita Hunt was born on a ranch in Argentina to British parents, but moved with her family to England at age 10 for her formal education.
- January 1, 1
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- January 1, 1
- London, England, UK
Martita Hunt. Actress: Great Expectations. Popular British character actress known for her rich cluster of queens, dowagers, shrews and evildoers, Martita Hunt was born on a ranch in Argentina to British parents, but moved with her family to England at age 10 for her formal education.
- January 30, 1900
- June 13, 1969
Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 1900 – 13 June 1969) was an Argentine-born British theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range of powerful characters. She is best remembered for her performance as Miss Havisham in David Lean's Great Expectations.
Martita Hunt (1900 - 1969) Despite appearing in over seventy films, Martita Hunt's cinema career is dominated by one role: that of Miss Haversham in Great Expectations. She was born in Buenos Aires to British parents, and was sent to England to boarding school at the age of ten.
…the spinster Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt), where he falls in love with her ward, Estella (Jean Simmons). Later, as a young man, Pip (now played by John Mills) discovers that an anonymous benefactor has financed a gentleman’s lifestyle for him in London. There he becomes friends with the raffish… Read More
Martita Hunt was a formidable Argentine-born actress with a rich voice. She made her name on the British stage and screen and used her horsey features and dominant plainness to create a colorful gallery of villainesses and (later) eccentric dowagers. She was perhaps most memorable as 'Miss Havisham' in the 1946 film "Great Expectations".
