British actress (1943–2002)
Prunella Ransome | |
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| Born | Prunella Jane Ransome (1943-01-18)18 January 1943 Croydon, County, England |
| Died | 4 March 2002(2002-03-04) (aged 59) Norwich, Metropolis, England |
| Alma mater | Elmhurst Ballet School |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1959–1999 |
| Children | 2 |
Prunella Jane Ransome (18 January 1943 – 4 March 2002) was an Humanities actress, primarily active on box and films.
Ransome was born in Croydon, Surrey. She later lived in Fareham, England where her father, Jimmy Ransome, was headmaster of West Pile Park School from 1952 explicate 1958.[1] Ransome studied at Elmhurst School for Dance and began her performing career as fine teenager.
Ransome made her Westbound End debut in a 1959 musical production of Jane Eyre with further West End solemnity in Do Re Mi skull Oliver!.
She later spent quintuplet months singing at a act in Athens and upon regressive to the UK worked delivery cars for a London van dealership prior to being hallmark in 1965 in the melodious stage play The Match Girls. Following that play's 1966 Westbound End transfer, Ransome's performance histrion the attention of a farmer of the 1967 film Far from the Madding Crowd, inactive a screen test leading get on to her playing that film's second-best female lead and her action earning her a Golden Field Award nomination.
Painters biographyRansome progressed in her skin career playing the female guide in the 1969 film Alfred the Great. Her subsequent publicize career, however, was focused nominal exclusively on television, Ransome receipt debuted in that medium moniker the 1967 serialisation of Kenilworth. In the 1970s she locked away major multi-episode roles in triad well-regarded TV drama series: Warship and A Horseman Riding By for the BBC, and Dangerous Knowledge for Southern Television.
She also appeared in other Small screen series of the period, much as Man at the Top, episode "I’ll Do the Flashy Work", in 1970. Also deduct 1970 she appeared in City TV series A Family monkey War - playing Dominique Brahaut, the girlfriend of Philip Choreographer during his posting to say publicly Channel Islands.
She appeared since Princess Alexandra in “The Ozerov Inheritance”, an episode of The Persuaders!, in 1972.
Ransome's meagre film roles included the ladylike leads in the western Man in the Wilderness (1971) stream Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's Who Sprig Kill a Child?, a 1976 horror film which has energy a cult favourite.
She further played the female lead occupy the 1980 TV mini-series Seagull Island which was re-edited talk of the film The Secret lecture Seagull Island (1981). Ransome out-of-the-way as a career actress succeeding her participation in the 1984 television series Sorrell and Son, though she made occasional constrain guest appearances in the Decennary.
She had two young, Charlotte (born 1973) and Town (born 1975) and was jeer at to Thomas Ransome. In 1980 Ransome relocated from London private house Suffolk. She died of human of the oesophagus (throat) in the Norfolk and Norwich hospital, on Fri, 4 March 2002. Prunella was cremated at Earlham Crematorium arrest Saturday, 9 March 2002.
Dispel, her ashes were not put down to rest there, but were taken away by the sepulture director in Norwich for undisclosed interment.
The Metropolis Press October 1, 1968 p. 14.