YvonneLawley
- Actor
Yvonne Lawley's acting career spanned more than 60 years. She began acting on television and radio in the 1960s, and the following decade on the big screen. Her work in 80s soap Gloss, and as star of Ruby and Rata and Rud's Wife provided proof positive that elderly women could be a commanding presence on screen. Yvonne Lawley, OBE, died on 21 May 1999.
Screenography
Biography
Joyce Yvonne Lawley began acting in her teens, but her screen career really began to take off in her 60s.
Lawley was born in North London. When she was around seven, her father moved to Auckland. She began acting while at school, and had hopes of studying at England's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. But life took an abrupt turn in her 20s on a ship to England, when she met an engineer named Bert. As she later told The Listener, "I was fortunate to marry the right man." She spent ten years in Calcutta, after her husband was posted to India during World War ll.
Awards
1995 Officer of the Order of the British Empire
For services to the performing arts
“There’s a mistaken idea among some people that when you’re old you lose all your abilities. It’s certainly not so. In acting you have so much of a rich past to draw on.”
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