Beryl Reid
Beryl Reid was born in Hereford, England, United Kingdom on June 17th, 1919 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 77, Beryl Reid biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Beryl Elizabeth Reid, (17 June 1919 – September 29, 1996), was a British actress of stage and film.
She received the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Killing of Sister George, the 1980 Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance in the Gardens, and the 1982 BAFTA Television Award for Smiley's People.
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954), The Killing of Sister George (1968), The Assassination Bureau (1969), and No Sex Please, We're British (1973).
Early life
Reid was born in Hereford in 1919 and grew up in Manchester, where she attended Withington and Levenshulme High Schools. She began a lifelong friendship with Nancy Wrigley, the daughter of the influential classical soprano Dame Isobel Baillie. Reid recalled how Baillie would "tell us the most wonderful things...you can imagine nine-year old girls goggle-eyed at six prince serenading her in Hawaii."
Personal life and death
She married twice but had no children. Fantom Films released Roll Out the Beryl, a licensed biography, on August 22, 2016. It was Kaye Crawford's first biography of the actress, and it occurred on the twentieth anniversary of her death.
Reid died at the age of 77 from severe osteoarthritis and kidney disease (according to some obituaries, she died of pneumonia) at a hospital in Wexham, Buckinghamshire, on October 13, 1996, after complications following knee replacement surgery for arthritis.
Career
She made her debut in 1936 as a music hall performer at the Floral Hall, Bridlington, after leaving school at the age of 16. She appeared in variety shows and pantomimes before and during the Second World War. She had no formal education, but later worked at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Monica, the first big success on BBC radio show Education Archie, was as naughty schoolgirl Monica and then as Brummie "Marlene."
Her numerous film and television appearances as a character actor were generally well-received. In the 1968 screen version, she reprised her Tony Award-winning role as a lesbian soap opera actress in The Killing of Sister George, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Drama. The tour of the play was not a success; people in shops refused to pay her and other performers due to the play's gay characters.
In 1976, she was greeted by Eamonn Andrews in the Teddington Studio parking lot.
Reid appeared in both Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) and Smiley's People (1982). Smiley's People received a BAFTA for Best Actress on Television.
Reid co-presented the Children's TV show Get up and Go for Yorkshire Television from 1981 to 1983, with her co-presenter "Mooncat" being a green, talking, puppet cat. Stephen Boxer was her human co-star. Since she left the show, it became simply Mooncat and Co.
In 1984, Reid wrote So Much Love, an autobiography.
In 1987 television drama The Beiderbecke Tapes, she was a participant in an elderly feminist and political subpoena.
She appeared in many situation comedies and variety shows on television, including BBC TV's long-running music hall show The Good Old Days.