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Eileen Mary Ure (18 February 1933 – 3 April 1975) was a Scottish actress. She was the second Scottish-born actress (after Deborah Kerr) to be nominated for an Academy Award, for her role in the 1960 film Sons and Lovers. She was the aunt of musician Midge Ure.
She also had a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon Avon, starring as Desdemona in 'Othello' with Paul Robeson, Albert Finney, Diana Rigg and Vanessa Redgrave. By this point, however, Mary's marriage to the womanising Osborne was already falling apart.
Ure played a leading role as Alison Porter in John Osborne's new play Look Back in Anger (1956). She and Osborne married and in 1958, she was in the Broadway production of Look Back in Anger and earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Dramatic Actress.
Aug 22, 2024 · Reporter Elizabeth Kendrick interviews Paul Robeson and Mary Ure at the Stratford Memorial Theatre where they are about to open the season with Othello. Robeson and Mary Ure are in costume being interviewed during a dress rehearsal. Robeson says this is the third time he has played the role and speaks of the beauty of the Warwickshire countryside.
Mary Ure as Amanda. a young prince is madly in love with a Romanian opera singer, Léocadia Gardi. The young man only knew her for three days: like Isadora Duncan, she died strangled by her shawl. Inconsolable, he lives in his memory of the young woman.
Apr 4, 1975 · At the age of 16, on the recommendation of the headmistress of Mount School, Miss Ure was chosen to play the Virgin Mary in a revival of the Cycle of Mystery Plays, which date from the Middle...
Nov 14, 2013 · She also had a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon Avon, starring as Desdemona in Othello with Paul Robeson, Albert Finney, Diana Rigg and Vanessa Redgrave. By this point, her marriage to the womanising Osborne was already falling apart.
