Frances de la Tour
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Frances de la Tour, as well as Frances J. de Lautour, is an English actress known for her appearance in the television sitcom Rising Damp from 1974 to 1978.
She is a Tony Award winner and a three-time Olivier Award winner. She appeared in The History Boys in London and Broadway, winning the Best Featured Actress in a Play Award in 2006.
She played her role in the 2006 film for the second time.
Madame Olympe Maxime in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), as well as the Deathly Hallows (2005).
Emma Porlock, Dennis Potter's 1996 film Cold Lazarus (1996), Headmistress Margaret Baron in BBC sitcom Big School, and Violet Crosby in the sitcom Vicious.
Early life and family
De la Tour was born in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, on July 30, 1944, to Moyra (née Fessas) and Charles de la Tour (1909–1982). The name was also written De Lautour, and it was in this way that her birth was traced in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in the third quarter of 1944. She has ancestry from France, Greece, and Ireland. She was educated at Lycée Français in London and the Drama Centre London.
She is the niece of actor and screenwriter Andy de la Tour, and she was briefly married to playwright Tom Kempinski for a short period of time. She has a son and a daughter.
De la Tour, a descendant of the aristocratic Delaval family, was revealed in an episode of BBC series Who Do You Think You Are?
Personal life
De la Tour, a socialist, was a founder of the Workers' Revolutionary Party in the 1970s.
Career
She began attending drama school and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1965. She appeared in a number of small theaters over the next six years, from Hoyden in The Relapse to Stephen Brook's acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which she played Helena as a comedic "tour de force."
She appeared on stage and on television throughout the 1970s. Rosalind in As You Like It at the Playhouse, Oxford, 1975, and Isabella in The White Devil at the Old Vic in 1976 were two of her finest appearances. She loved a performance with Stepney's Half Moon Theatre in London's premiere of Dario Fo's We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay (1978), Eleanor Marx's Landscape of Exile (1979), and in the title role of Hamlet (1980).
She appeared in Stephanie, the violinist with MS in Duet for One, a Kempinski script for her, for which she received the Olivier Award for Best Actress. In Uncle Vanya, she appeared as Sonya opposite Donald Sinden at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in 1982. In 1983, Josie's appearance in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten earned her another Olivier award for Best Actress. In 1984, she joined the Royal National Theatre for the title role in Saint Joan, and in 1986, she appeared in Brighton Beach Memoirs. She received another Olivier nomination for Martin Sherman's performance about Isadora Duncan, When She Danced, with Vanessa Redgrave at the Globe Theatre in 1991, and Leo in Les Parents terrors at the Royal National Theatre in 1994, earning another Olivier award.
De la Tour appeared in Three Tall Women at the Wyndham's in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women and with Alan Howard in Albee's The Play About the Child. In 1999, she returned to the RSC to perform Cleopatra opposite Alan Bates in Antony and Cleopatra, in which she did a nude walk across the stage. She appeared in Alan Bennett's The History Boys at the National and later in Broadway, winning both a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She will also be seen in the film version later this year. She appeared in the highly praised anti-Iraq War one-woman play Peace Mom by Dario Fo in London in December 2005, based on Cindy Sheehan's writings. In 2007, she appeared in a West End revival of the farce Boeing-Boeing. She appeared in Alan Bennett's latest play The Habit of Art at the National in 2009. People, who made her return to the National in 2012 in her third Bennett premiership.
her numerous television appearances during the 1980s and 1990s included the 1980 miniseries Flickers opposite Bob Hoskins, the television adaptation of Duet for One (1988–89), Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus (1996), and Tom Jones (1997). Ruth Jones is best known for her television appearances, but she is best known for her role as spinster Ruth Jones in the popular Yorkshire television comedy Rising Damp, which ran from 1974 to 1978. Ruth Jones "was an interesting character to play," De la Tour told Richard Webber, who wrote a 2001 book about the series. On set, we laughed a lot, but comedy is a serious industry, and Leonard took it seriously, and rightfully so. Comedy, which is so much a product of timing, is exhausting work. "It was a good time." She received Best Actress at the Evening Standard British Film Awards after repriseing her role in the 1980 film version.
De la Tour was considered a replacement for Colin Baker on Doctor Who in the mid-1980s, as well as Joanna Lumley and Dawn French. The project was shelved, and Sylvester McCoy was given the job.
Although de la Tour appeared in the film Love Actually with the actress Anne Reid in 2003, her scenes were cut from the film's theatrical release and appear only on DVDs.
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, she portrayed Olympe Maxime, the headmistress of Beauxbatons Academy. Agatha Christie's Poirot (2004), Waking the Dead (2004), Sensitive Skin (2005), Agatha Christie's Marple: The Moving Finger (2006) and New Tricks as a rather morbid Egyptologist were among the notable television appearances during this period.
She was nominated for the 2006 BAFTA Award for Actress in a Support Role for her work on The History Boys' film version.
Aunt Imogene, a delusional aunt of Alice's, appeared in several well-received films, including Tim Burton's 2010 Alice in Wonderland, as Aunt Imogene, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Mia Wasikowska, and a supporting role in the Hughes brothers' film The Book of Eli. She appeared in the film Hugo in 2012.
She was also a member of Theatretrain, the performing arts group.
De la Tour appeared on ITV's comedy Vicious with Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi from 2013 to 2016.
Ms Baron, the BBC One sitcom Big School's headmistress, appeared from 2013 to 2014.
Mother Hildegarde appeared in two Outlander series in April 2016.
De la Tour appeared in an ITV series, first appearing on BritBox - Professor T., in which she played the titular role.