Eleanor Bron

At 86 years old, Eleanor Bron has this physical status:

Eleanor Bron (born 14 March 1938) is an English stage, film, and television actress as well as an author.

She is best known for her appearance in the Beatles film Help! as Ahme.

Early life and family

Bron was born in Stanmore, Middlesex, on March 14, 1938, into a Jewish family. In an attempt to develop his newly established commercial company, Bron's Orchestral Service, before her birth, her father Sydney had legally changed his name from Bronstein to Bron. Gerry Bron, her elder brother, was the record producer.

She attended North London Collegiate School and then Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read Modern Languages. "Three years of unparalleled pampering and awe" during her stay in Newnham, she said later.

Personal life

Bron was the partner of the architect Cedric Price for many years before his death in 2003; they had no children. During a 2015 interview with Bron, she revealed that she voted for Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election. Bron is a pescetarian.

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Career

Bron debuted in the Cambridge Footlights revue of 1959, titled The Last Laugh, in which Peter Cook appeared as a ghost. The addition of a female performer to the Footlights was a change; up to that point, it had been all-male, with female characters portrayed in drag.

Ahme's appearance in the Beatles' film Help! (1965): Her name inspired Paul McCartney when he wrote "Eleanor Rigby," she wrote. In addition, Margaret Spencer in Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's film Bedazzled (1966), and Sisters McFee and MacArthur in The National Health (1973).

She appeared in the films Two for the Road (1967) with Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn, as well as A Touch of Love (1969) with Sandy Dennis and Ian McKellen. She appeared in the film version of Black Beauty (1994) and A Little Princess (1995).

Bron's first television appearances on David Frost's Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, My Father Knew Lloyd George, and BBC-3, where she appeared in sketches with John Fortune; they had already worked together at Peter Cook's Establishment Club. Where Was Spring? Eventually, she was involved in such programs as Where Was Spring? (1969, also with Fortune), World in Ferment (1969), and After That, This (1975) – the one with the fastest timer in the opening credits.

She appeared on BBC shows Beyond a Joke (1972) and Making Faces (1975), as a novelist and playwright Michael Frayn.

She appeared in "Equal Opportunities," a 1982 episode of the BBC series Yes Minister, as a senior civil servant in Jim Hacker's Department. Hacker plans to promote her — ostensibly to dole out a blow for women's rights — but she is left disappointed.

In 1979, Bron appeared as Maggie Hartley, a stage actress suspected of murder in a British legal drama called "Rumpole and the Show Folk," which starred Leo McKern in the title role. She appeared in The Day Christ Died (1980), as Mary, and in the 1983 TV film The Hound of the Baskervilles, which starred Ian Richardson as Sherlock Holmes.

Bron appeared in the original version of Doctor Who twice. She appeared in the serial City of Death (1979), alongside John Cleese, which was at the suggestion of its co-writer Douglas Adams. When the Doctor (Tom Baker), Romana (Lalla Ward), and Duggan (Tom Chadbon) leap into it and dematerializes, the two art critics in Denise Rene's art gallery in Paris are admiring the TARDIS (which they believe to be a work of art). Bron's character, who believes this to be part of the production, says that it is "exquisite, absolutely magnificent." In the Colin Baker era serial Revelation of the Daleks (1985), she also had the main guest billing as the villain Kara. Bron appeared in the Doctor Who audio drama Loups-Garoux (2001), starring Peter Davison, in which she played the wealthy heiress Ileana de Santos.

Bron appeared on BBC sketch comedy show French and Saunders in a parody of an Andy Warhol documentary in 1990. She made frequent appearances in Jennifer Saunders' television series Absolutely Fabulous. Bron portrayed Patsy's mother, a woman who "scattered bastard babies around Europe like a garden sprinkler," a recurring character. She'd always say, "Now take it away!" after giving birth. And now bring me another lover." Maria Laslo appeared in the first series of Heartbeat in 1992. She appeared in the BBC's biographical TV film Saint-Ex in 1996 and had a supporting role in the BBC ghost story The Blue Boy. She also narrated an episode of Wild Discoveries.

In 1973, she appeared in The Card, a West End musical. She appeared on amnesty International's The Unknown Policeman's Ball live benefit shows in the 1980s, beginning with Peter Cook and Rowan Atkinson, who performed with them as part of the 1976 Broadway show A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick). In 2005, she appeared in the musical play "From Twopence to Cross the Mersey" at the Liverpool Empire Theatre. In Howard Brenton's play In Extremis, she appeared as an abbess, which was performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2007. She appeared in the drama version of Pedro Almodóvar's film All About My Mother, which opened at the Old Vic theatre in late summer of 2007.

In protest against uranium mining in the Orkney Islands, Bron performed The Yellow Cake Revue (1980), a series of pieces for voice and piano created by Peter Maxwell Davies. For Camille Saint-Safns' The Carnival of the Animals, Bron has written and performed new verses. With the Nash Ensemble, she has also performed and recorded the female reciter role in William Walton's Façade (entertainment).

Bron was chosen in 1985 for her authoritative tone, and she can still be heard on several British telephone error messages like "The number you dialed has not been recognized," says the narrator.

In 1998, she appeared as Frau Luther in episode 2 "Stuckart" of BBC Radio 4's "fatherland"; a book by Robert Harris, Anton Lesser, Angeline Ball, Stratford Johns, William Scott Masson, and Michael Culver.

She appeared on BBC radio comedy sketch show The Right Time in 2001 and 2002, as well as Graeme Garden, Paula Wilcox, Clive Swift, and Neil Innes. In the 2002 episode "The Madness of Colonel Warburton," Sherlock Holmes made another memorable radio appearance in "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes." In 2001, she appeared as the great-grandmother in the seven-part ITV series Gypsy Girl, which was based on Elizabeth Arnold's books.

She narrated the BBC Radio 4 version of Craig Brown's 1966 and All That in 2006. Her other voice work includes a video tour of Sir John Soane's Museum in London, England.

In April 2010, Bron, along with Ian McKellen and Brian Cox, debuted in a series of television commercials to promote Age UK, the charity that emerged from the merger of Age Concern and Help the Aged. Both three actors were given their time free of charge.

In the episode "The Russian House" by Foyle's War in June 2010, Bron guest-starred in Foyle's War.

Lady Isobel DeQuetteville appeared in the long-running British television series Midsomer Murders as Lady Isobel DeQuetteville in "The Dark Rider" episode, which premiered on ITV1 on February 1, 2012. Maxine appeared in "The Miniature Murders" in 2019.

Bron appeared on BBC One in an M.R. adaptation on December 25, 2013. The Tractate Middoth is a James ghost story.

On July 25, she joined The Archers, a radio show starring Carol Tregorran.

On BBC Radio 4, Bron read the Grandmothers of Salley Vickers in ten parts from November to December 2019.

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