LEGENDARY actress Barbara Leigh-Hunt has died aged 88.
The film icon passed away peacefully on September 16 at her home in Warwickshire, her family announced.
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While she appeared to a mass audience on the television screen, it was on the stage that she did her finest work.
Barbara was one of the victims of Barry Foster’s Necktie Murderer in Alfred Hitchcock’s penultimate film, Frenzy.
The British star also was known for her performance as Lady Catherine de Bourgh in the acclaimed 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
Her versatility was also seen in her performance of hilarious Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, which attracted rave reviews.
During her seven-decade career, Leigh-Hunt appeared for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway.
She received her Olivier in 1993 for her turn as Sybil Birling in an NT revival of J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, directed by Stephen Daldry.
She also portrayed a sad bewildered Ophelia in the mid-1960s as well as Belvidera in the Prospect Theatre Company’s Venice Preserv’d in 1970.
She was married to actor Richard Pasco from 1967 until his 2014 death.
Donations in her memory can be made to The Royal Theatrical Fund here.
