Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Barbara Leigh-Hunt (born 14 December 1935) is a British actress.^[1] Her numerous theatre credits include Broadway productions of Hamlet (1958) and Sherlock Holmes Justice (1973) (1974), and she won the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for the National Theatre production of An Inspector Calls. Her film appearances include Frenzy (1972), Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972), Bequest to the Nation (1973) and Billy Elliot (2000).

Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Born	(1935-12-14) 14 December 1935 (age 87) Bath, Somerset, England, U.K.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1954–present
Spouse	Richard Pasco (m. 1967; died 2014)
Relatives	Ronald Leigh-Hunt (cousin)

Early life

Leigh-Hunt was born in Bath, Somerset.

On stage, Leigh-Hunt has appeared in many productions as well those with the Bristol Old Vic, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. Her early film roles have included Catherine Parr in Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972), Bequest to the Nation (1973) and Oh Heavenly Dog (1980). Her most famous movie role is probably in Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film Frenzy (1972), as a woman raped and strangled by a serial killer, that included the first graphically violent scene featuring visible nudity of Hitchcock's career.

In 1983 Leigh-Hunt appeared as the Queen of Bavaria in the mini-series Wagner, sharing her scenes with Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud as court ministers. Richard Burton played the composer Richard Wagner. Her husband, Richard Pasco, whom she married in 1967, appeared also.

Leigh-Hunt played Jean Lawrence in the controversial BBC drama Tumbledown (1988), and Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice (1995), and provided the voices of the farmer's wife in The Plague Dogs (1982), and Captain Mildred and Mary the Hover Fairy in the 1987 Children's BBC series Charlie Chalk. In 1999, Leigh starred as Lady Cumnor in BBC's four-part series adaptation of the novel Wives and Daughters (1999). More recently she has appeared in such films as Paper Mask (1990), Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997), Billy Elliot (2000), The Martins (2001) and Vanity Fair (2004), and has had much work on television, mainly in guest character parts.

Her cousin was the actor Ronald Leigh-Hunt.^[2]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969	Callan	Susanne	Season 2, episode: "Death of a Hunter"
1972	Frenzy	Brenda Blaney
1972	Henry VIII and His Six Wives	Catherine Parr
1973	Bequest to the Nation	Catherine 'Catty' Matcham
1980	Oh Heavenly Dog	Margaret
1982	The Plague Dogs	Farmer's Wife	Voice only
1986	Charlie Chalk (1987)	Captain Mildred, Mary the Hover Fairy	Voice only; 12 episodes
1986	Screenplay	Mrs Oxney
1988	Tumbledown	Jean Lawrence	Television film
1990	Paper Mask	Celia Mumford
	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Mrs Fanshawe	Episodes: "The Best Man to Die Parts 1,2,3"
	Inspector Morse	Blanche Copley-Barnes	Episode: "The Infernal Serpent"
1993	Anna Lee: Headcase	Beryl	Television film
1995	Pride and Prejudice	Lady Catherine de Bourgh
As Time Goes By	Registrar	Episode: "Wedding Day Nerves"
1997	Keep the Aspidistra Flying	Mrs. Wisbeach
1998	The Echo	Mrs Deacon	Series 1 episode 2
1999	Wives and Daughters	Lady Cumnor	3 episodes
1999	Sunburn	Edna Hand	Series 1 episode 1
1999-2001	Kavanagh QC	Lady Justice Pinnock	2 episodes
2000	Billy Elliot	Vice-Principal
2000	Longitude	Dodo Gould	Television film
2001	The Martins	Mrs. Heath
2002	Midsomer Murders (2002)	Marjorie Empson
	George Eliot: A Scandalous Life	Gossip	Television film
	Bertie and Elizabeth	Lady Mabel Airlie
2004	Vanity Fair	Lady Bareacres

^ Noble 1982, p. 492
^ Stage, The (3 October 2005). "Ronald Leigh-Hunt | Obituaries". The Stage. Retrieved 6 October 2019.

Noble, Peter, ed. (1982). 1982–1983 Screen International Film And TV Year Book. London: King Publications.