Barbara Leigh-Hunt, a British actor whose profession included elements in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Frenzy and the BBC miniseries Satisfaction & Prejudice, has died. She was 88 years previous.
Leigh-Hunt died peacefully at dwelling in Aston Cantlow, England, on September 16, in keeping with a funeral discover.
In Frenzy, Leigh-Hunt performed Brenda Blaney, a sufferer of the “Necktie Assassin” serial killer, who seems to be a good friend of Brenda’s ex-husband. Brenda’s sexual assault and homicide within the 1972 movie is taken into account probably the most graphic sequence of any Hitchcock image, per The Hollywood Reporter.
“I used to be invited out to Pinewood Studios to talk with Hitch for about half an hour,” she mentioned in a 2017 BBC interview, recalling how she received the half. “To me, he was a cinematic god, however I used to be satisfied it was a whole waste of time as I’d by no means even made a movie. On my approach dwelling, I known as my agent from the station. I used to be astonished to listen to they’d already been on the telephone to say I had the half.”
A long time later, in 1995, Leigh-Hunt made one other memorable flip as Woman Catherine de Bourgh, aunt of Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy, the BBC’s Satisfaction and Prejudice.
Born on December 14, 1935, in Tub, England, Leigh-Hunt received her begin on stage, graduating from Bristol Previous Vic theater college in 1953 and making her theatrical debut in London only a yr later. By Previous Vic, she appeared on Broadway in A Midsummer Night time’s Dream in 1954 and Hamletand King Henry V in 1958 and 1959.
She received an Olivier Award for her efficiency in a Nationwide Theatre manufacturing of An Inspector Calls in 1993, and in a few of her final roles, she appeared within the 2000 movie Billy Elliot and the 2004 movie Vainness Truthful.
Leigh-Hunt was married to actor Richard Pasco — her costar in a Bristol Previous Vic manufacturing of Hamlet — from 1967 till his 2014 demise.
