- Adrienne Corri
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name = Adrienne Corri
birthname = Adrienne Riccoboni
birthdate = birth date and age|1933|11|13|df=y
location =Edinburgh ,Scotland , UK
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occupation = Actress
spouse =Derek Fowlds (?-?)
Daniel Massey (1961-1967)Adrienne Corri (born on
13 November 1933 inEdinburgh ,Scotland ) is an actress of Italian parentage.She is probably best known for her role as the rape victim Mrs. Alexander in the 1971
Stanley Kubrick film "A Clockwork Orange", and for her appearances as Valerie in Jean Renoir's "The River " (1951) and as Lara's mother inDavid Lean 's "Dr. Zhivago " (1965). She appeared in many horror and suspense films in the 1950s until the 1970s including "Devil Girl from Mars ", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "A Study in Terror " and "Vampire Circus ". She has also appeared as Therese Duval in "Revenge of the Pink Panther ".Her numerous television credits include regular roles in "
A Family At War " and "You're Only Young Twice", appearing as Mena in the "Doctor Who " story "The Leisure Hive " and guest starred as the mariticidal Liz Newton in the "UFO" episode "The Square Triangle".She has also appeared on stage. There is a story that, when the audience booed on the first night of
John Osborne 's "The World Of Paul Slickey", Corri responded with her own abuse: she raised two fingers to the audience and shouted "Go, fuck yourselves."cite web |url=http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2006/09/01/sounding_off_1.html |title=Sounding off |first=Michael |last=Billington |authorlink=Michael Billington (critic) |date=2006-09-01 |work=Culture Vulture |publisher=Guardian Unlimited Note that Billington only repeats the story, without confirming or providing any evidence of its truth.]She has married and divorced twice, to the actors Daniel Massey (1961-1967) and
Derek Fowlds .Her book 'The Search for Gainsborough' (Jonathan Cape: 1984) contained much original research, including examination of banking records, and made a plausible case for 1726 as his birth year.
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