Adrienne Corri
Acting
Born November 13, 1930, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Adrienne Corri (born 13 November 1930 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is an actress of Italian parentage. She is probably best known for her role as the rape victim Mrs. Alexander in the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange, and for her appearances as Valerie in Jean Renoir's The River (1951) and as Lara's mother in David Lean's Dr. Zhivago (1965). She appeared in many horror and suspense films in the 1950s until the 1970s including Devil Girl from Mars, The Tell-Tale Heart, A Study in Terror and Vampire Circus. She also appeared as Therese Duval in Revenge of the Pink Panther. She also was in the 1969 science fiction movie Moon Zero Two and in the 1969 Twelfth Night, directed by John Sichel, as the Countess Olivia opposite Alec Guinness as Malvolio. Her numerous television credits include Angelica in Sword of Freedom (1958), a regular role in A Family At War and You're Only Young Twice, a 1971 television play by Jack Trevor Story, as Mena in the Doctor Who story "The Leisure Hive" and guest starred as the mariticidal Liz Newton in the UFO episode "The Square Triangle". She had a major stage career. There is a story that, when the audience booed on the first night of John Osborne's The World Of Paul Slickey, Corri responded with her own abuse: she raised two fingers to the audience and shouted "Go fuck yourselves". Corri has married and divorced twice, to the actors Daniel Massey (1961-1967) and Derek Fowlds. Her book The Search for Gainsborough (Jonathan Cape: 1984) contained much original research, including examination of banking records, and made a plausible case for 1726 as his birth year. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adrianne Corri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
- 1987Blat — Lady Caroline
- Lovejoy — Lady Rebecca
- 1986The Demon Lover — Delia Graham
- 1980Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive — Mena
- 1979Measure for Measure — Mistress Overdone
- 1979The Human Factor — Sylvia
- 1978Revenge of the Pink Panther — Therese Douvier
- 1977The Country Wife — Lady Fidget
- 1975Rosebud — Lady Carter
- Bedtime Stories — Constance Rawley
- 1974Madhouse — Faye
- Napoleon and Love — Giuseppina Grassini
- 1973An Afternoon at the Festival — Dana
- Vienna 1900
- The Adventurer — Nita
- 1972Vampire Circus — Gypsy Woman
- 1971A Clockwork Orange — Mrs. Alexander
- Eyeless in Gaza — Mary Amberley
- You're Only Young Twice
- 1970A Distant Thunder — Elinor Barkham
- Play for Today — Elinor Barkham
- 1970Twelfth Night — Countess Olivia
- UFO — Liz Newton
- Department S — Monique Grelle
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Dana
- 1969Moon Zero Two — Liz
- 1969The File of the Golden Goose — Angela 'Tina' Richmond
- 1968Cry Wolf — Mrs. Quinn
- 1968Journey Into Darkness — Terry Lawrence
- The Champions — Mrs. Trennick
- 1967Africa: Texas Style! — Fay Carter
- 1967The Viking Queen — Beatrice
- 1967Woman Times Seven — Mme. Lisiere
- The Idiot — Nastasia
- 1965A Study in Terror — Angela
- BBC Play of the Month — Violet, Lady Fidget, Amy, Countess of Gosswill
- Blackmail — Phyllis
- 1965Bunny Lake Is Missing — Dorothy
- 1965Doctor Zhivago — Amelia
- The Man in Room 17 — Lynne Crawshaw
- Doctor Who — Mena
- 1963Sword of Lancelot — Lady Vivian
- Drama 61-67
- 1961Dynamite Jack — Pegeen O'Brien
- 1961The Hellfire Club — Lady Isabel
- Armchair Mystery Theatre — Madeleine
- Danger Man
- Sunday-Night Play — Queenie Gibbons
- 1960The Tell-Tale Heart — Betty Clare
- One Step Beyond — Sarah Malone
- 1959The Rough and the Smooth — Jane Buller
- 1958Corridors of Blood — Rachel
- Sword of Freedom
- The Adventures of William Tell
- 1957Second Fiddle — Deborah
- 1957The Big Chance — Diana Maxwell
- 1957The Surgeon's Knife — Laura Shelton
- Armchair Theatre — Vivien Warren, Lalage, Angela, Marcia, Peggy Banham, Mary Lewis
- 1956Behind the Headlines — Pam Barnes
- Colonel March of Scotland Yard — Clara
- 1956The Anatomist — Mary Paterson
- The Buccaneers — Mistress Higgins
- The Count of Monte Cristo — Gabrielle
- 1956The Feminine Touch — Nurse Maureen O'Brien
- 1956Three Men in a Boat — Clara Willis
- 1954Calling Scotland Yard: The Man Who Stayed Alive — Joan
- 1954Devil Girl from Mars — Doris
- 1954Lease of Life — Susan Thorne
- 1954Make Me an Offer! — Nicky
- Mark Saber — Helen
- 1954Meet Mr. Callaghan — Mayolo
- 1954The Man Who Stayed Alive — Joan
- 1954The Troubled Mind — Nurse Laurie
- 1953The Kidnappers — Kirsty
- 1951Quo Vadis — Young Christian Girl (uncredited)
- 1951The River — Valerie
- 1949The Romantic Age — Norah
Appearances as themselves (2)
- The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
- Six-Five Special — Self