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  • '''Melissa Stribling''' (7 November 1926 – 22 March 1992) was a Scottish film and television actress, who began her acting career as part of a profe [[Category:Scottish film actresses]]
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  • ...s]], [[w:Manchester|Manchester]]. Her father William Brown Carson, who was Scottish, ran a flour mill and her mother, Mary Clarke (Tordoff) was an amateur sing [[Category:Actresses from Manchester]]
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  • ...Law''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (born 8th May 1932) is a Scottish [[Actor|actress]], known for her numerous roles in film and television. ...Their daughters, [[Emma Thompson|Emma]] and [[Sophie Thompson]], are both actresses.
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  • ...rieved 27 September 2020.</ref> Reid was the daughter of [[Scottish people|Scottish]] parents and grew up in [[Manchester]], where she attended [[Withington]] [[Category:Actresses from Manchester]]
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  • | nationality = Scottish ...name=baker/> 24 July 1902 &ndash; 9 February 1980) was a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] comedy actress and [[revue]] artist who appeared in television and film r
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  • After training at the [[Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama|Glasgow College of Dramatic Art]] (now the Royal [[Category:20th-century English actresses]]
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  • ...ne-corri-obituary |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=28 March 2016}}</ref> was a Scottish actress.<ref name="Timesobit">{{cite news |title=Adrienne Corri |url=https: ...1). Corri, not originally cast in the film, was offered the role after two actresses had already withdrawn from the production, one of them, according to [[Malc
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  • {{Short description|Scottish comedian and writer (1930–2016)}} ...s|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (4 December 1930&nbsp;– 31 March 2016) was a Scottish actor, broadcaster, comedian and writer. He had a long association with [[R
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  • ...er of the singer and actress [[Cicely Nott]] and the sister of three other actresses, including [[Ada Blanche]], a well-known [[pantomime]] star.<ref name=dnb>P [[Category:Actresses awarded British damehoods]]
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  • ...episode featured comedian [[Bernard Manning]] and actor [[Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)|Richard Wilson]]. Manning clashed with Wilson and Aherne as she aske [[Category:20th-century British businesspeople]]
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  • ...e shrinking but eager girl at the local palais, the incompetent but ardent Scottish dancer, the modern miss, and the Swedish visitor at a cocktail party.<ref n [[Category:20th-century English actresses]]
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  • ...de (operetta)|Candide]]'' in the London cast of the critically acclaimed [[Scottish Opera]] production.<ref name="CatholicHerald">{{cite news|last=Westby|first [[Category:20th-century English actresses]]
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  • [[Category:English film actresses]] [[Category:English musical theatre actresses]]
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  • Moore was married and divorced four times: to actresses [[Suzy Kendall]] (15 June 1968 – 15 September 1972), [[Tuesday Weld]] (20 [[Category:English people of Scottish descent]]
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  • ...over seven decades and was one of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actresses.<ref name="britannica.com">{{Cite web |date=7 September 2023 |title=Maggie ...aret Natalie Smith}}</ref> Her mother, Margaret Hutton (née Little), was a Scottish secretary from [[Glasgow]], and her father, Nathaniel Smith, was a public-h
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  • ...y=1999|2p=21}} Facing financial difficulty, her mother became engaged to a Scottish colonel, Leckie Forbes, and moved into his house in [[Hampstead]]. Lansbury ...er among their [[B-list]] stars, MGM used her less than their similar-aged actresses; Lansbury biographers Rob Edelman and Audrey E. Kupferberg believed that th
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  • ...ve Python banner. The second show featured newcomer [[Rowan Atkinson]] and Scottish comedian [[Billy Connolly]].<ref name="performers">{{cite news |title=Remem ...thor1=Alleen Pace Nilsen|author2=Don Lee Fred Nilsen|title=Encyclopedia of 20th-century American humor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ufWAAAAMAAJ|access-da
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