Barbara Leigh-Hunt, the Olivier Award-triumphning actress who portrayed one of the victims of Barry Foster’s Necktie Murderer in Alfred Hitchcock’s penultimate film, Frenzy, has died. She was 88.
Leigh-Hunt died peacefilledy Sept. 16 at her home in Warwicksengage, England, her family proclaimd.
The British star also was comprehendn for her carry outance as Lady Catherine de Bourgh in the acclaimed 1995 BBC changeation of Pride and Prejudice, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
During her seven-decade atsoft, Leigh-Hunt euniteed for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway. She obtaind her Olivier in 1993 for her turn as Sybil Birling in an NT revival of J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, straightforwarded by Stephen Dalparched.
In Frenzy (1972), filmed in London, Leigh-Hunt portrayed Brfinisha Blaney, the ex-wife of a struggling createer RAF squadron directer (Jon Finch), who police at first skinnyk is the serial ender on the free. Her character is sexual batteryd and homicideed in what many ponder the most explicit sequence Hitchcock ever filmed.
Her film résumé included Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972), Bequest to the Nation (1973), Joe Camp’s Oh Heavenly Dog (1980), Paper Mask (1990), A Merry War (1997), Dalparched’s Billy Elliot (2000) and Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair (2004).
Leigh-Hunt was born on Dec. 14, 1935, in Bath, Somerset, England. She graduated from Bristol Old Vic theater school in 1953 and a year postpodemandr made her theatrical debut in London with the Old Vic.
She traveled with the company to Broadway to eunite in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1954 and in Hamlet and King Henry V in 1958-59. And with the RSC in the 1970s, she acted in Travesties, King Lear and Sherlock Holmes, which she accompanied to Broadway in 1973.
Leigh-Hunt also euniteed in take parts for Mike Newell (Mrs. Moinclude, Are You Wiskinny?), Tom Stoppard (Travesties) and Ricchallenging Eyre (Bartholomew Fair, Racing Demon) and portrayed Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the NT in 1988.
She was wed to actor Ricchallenging Pasco from 1967 until his 2014 death. Donations in her memory can be made to The Royal Theatrical Fund.
