Rachel roberts biography

Welsh actress (1927–1980)

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Rachel Roberts (20 September 1927 – 26 November 1980) was a British actress. She is best remembered for her screen performances as the older mistress of the central male characters in both Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and This Sporting Life (1963). For each, she won the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for This Sporting Life. Her other notable film appearances included Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and Yanks (1979).

Roberts' theatre credits included the original production of the musical Maggie May in 1964. She was nominated for the 1974 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the plays, Chemin de Fer and The Visit,^[1] and won a Drama Desk Award in 1976 for Habeas Corpus.

Early life and career

Roberts was born in Llanelli,

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Beautiful, swift and tough-tongued British character actress Rachel Roberts gained notice for her roles on the English stage, before she hit it largely in films.

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Rachel Roberts (20 September 1927 – 26 November 1980) was a British actress.

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Rachel Roberts was a Welsh actress probably best known for her British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award-winning performance as Brenda—an unhappily married woman who becomes pregnant with another man’s child—in the Karel Reisz film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ().

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Welsh actress who won the British Film Academy's Best Actress award for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

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Rachel Roberts (born September 20, 1927, Llanelli, Carmathenshire, Wales—died November 26, 1980, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was a Welsh actress probably best known for her British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award-winning performance as Brenda—an unhappily married woman who becomes pregnant with another man’s child—in the Karel Reisz film Saturday Night and Sunday.