Elizabeth Counsell

Elizabeth Counsell
Born (1942-06-07)7 June 1942
Windsor, Berkshire, England
Occupation Stage, film and television actress

Elizabeth Counsell (born June 7, 1942) is an English actress, best known for starring in the BBC television series Brush Strokes, and for her work in classical theatre. She played Lady Macbeth to Michael Gambon's Macbeth at the Forum Theatre in 1968, and was Michael Redgrave's leading lady in his anthology Shakespeare's People, 1976-77. In 1983 she took the nominal part in Peter Hall's Jean Seberg (musical) at the Royal National Theatre. She most recently appeared in the 2012 film Song for Marion with Vanessa Redgrave.[1]

Counsell is the daughter of actress Mary Kerridge and stage director John Counsell, who together ran the Theatre Royal, Windsor. In the 1970s she married the actor David Simeon, and in 1979 gave birth to a son.[2]

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20131018123505/http://jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=3783
  2. ↑ British Library Theatre Archive - David Simeon

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