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...cter actress.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba246ddb5|title=Noël Dyson|website=BFI}}</ref> ...me a familiar face to British viewers in a career spanning almost 50 years from 1949 until her death. Dyson's best remembered roles are as matriarch [[Ida

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...in ''[[Monarch of the Glen (TV series)|Monarch of the Glen]]'' (2000–05). From the late 1980s, with [[Kenneth Branagh]] as director, he performed Shakespe ...red a relationship.<ref name=more/> The family occasionally received money from a wealthy relation, and Briers' maternal grandparents paid for his educatio

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