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- She's been a MASTERPIECE star in six decades. It’s likely that MASTERPIECE fans are no strangers to the talents of Flesh and Blood star Francesca Annis.
- She almost took a drastically different path in life. Though she began her acting career young and never looked back, Annis almost took a very different path in life — one devoted to her faith.
- She spent the first seven years of her life in Brazil. During the early years of Annis’ childhood, her parents ran a nightclub on Copacabana Beach. The family spent years there before moving to England, and Annis still has vivid memories of her time in Brazil.
- Her big break was starring alongside a Hollywood icon! Though Annis’ first on-screen role came at the age of 14 as the lead in the 1958 film The Cat Gang, about a group of children who stumble across a smuggling ring, her big break would come just five years later in 1963 as Eiras, a handmaiden, in the hit film Cleopatra, starring big-screen legends Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
- Masterpiece
- She's been a MASTERPIECE star in six decades. It’s likely that MASTERPIECE fans are no strangers to the talents of Flesh and Blood star Francesca Annis.
- She almost took a drastically different path in life. Though she began her acting career young and never looked back, Annis almost took a very different path in life — one devoted to her faith.
- She spent the first seven years of her life in Brazil. During the early years of Annis’ childhood, her parents ran a nightclub on Copacabana Beach. The family spent years there before moving to England, and Annis still has vivid memories of her time in Brazil.
- Her big break was starring alongside a Hollywood icon! Though Annis’ first on-screen role came at the age of 14 as the lead in the 1958 film The Cat Gang, about a group of children who stumble across a smuggling ring, her big break would come just five years later in 1963 as Eiras, a handmaiden, in the hit film Cleopatra, starring big-screen legends Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
who financed the film, asked Annis to pose for a Playboy centrefold, to everyone's amazement she refused. She has a way of slowly lowering her lids when she delivers some
Interview: Francesca Annis: Age before beauty. Francesca Annis is relishing the feeling that she s no longer an object of desire, she tells Lesley White. Sunday May 02 2004, 1.00am, The Sunday Times. Why should a woman celebrated for her looks be so cool about growing old?
English actress Francesca Annis, who has enjoyed a career spanning seven decades in movies, television and the theater, was born in London six days after V-E Day, on May 14, 1945. Her father, Lester, was English, but her mother, Mariquita (aka Mara Purcell), was of Brazilian-French heritage.
Francesca Annis (born 14 May 1945) [1] is an English actress. She is known for television roles in Reckless (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), Deceit (2000), and Cranford (2007). A six-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 1979 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the ITV serial Lillie .
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Apr 14, 2009 · She turned down offers of Vogue covers, requests to pose nude (though she did perform Lady Macbeth's mad scene with nothing on for Polanski), and she has said, 'a lot of films.
