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Gender: Female

Place of birth: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

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Movie Involvements: 36

TV Involvements: 12


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Biography

Adrienne Corri (born 13 November 1930 in Edinburgh, 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 in David 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 also appeared as Therese Duval in Revenge of the Pink Panther. She also was in the 1969 science fiction movie Moon Zero Two and in the 1969 Twelfth Night, directed by John Sichel, as the Countess Olivia opposite Alec Guinness as Malvolio. Her numerous television credits include Angelica in Sword of Freedom (1958), a regular role in A Family At War and You're Only Young Twice, a 1971 television play by Jack Trevor Story, 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 had a major stage career. 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". Corri 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Adrianne Corri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Doctor Who
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8

Doctor Who

(1963) Mena
The Champions
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6

The Champions

(1968) Mrs. Trennick
A Clockwork Orange
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8

A Clockwork Orange

(1971) Mary Alexander
One Step Beyond
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6

One Step Beyond

(1959) Sarah Malone
UFO
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8

UFO

(1970) Liz Newton
Doctor Zhivago
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8

Doctor Zhivago

(1965) Amelia
Quo Vadis
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7

Quo Vadis

(1951) Young Christian Girl (uncredited)
The Buccaneers
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6

The Buccaneers

(1956) Mistress Higgins

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1986 Lady Rebecca
1980 Mena
1979 Sylvia
Mistress Overdone
1978 N/A
Therese Douvier
1977 Lady Fidget
1975 Lady Carter
1974 Faye
Constance Rawley
1973 N/A
Dana
1972 Nita
Gypsy Woman
1971 Mrs. Alexander
N/A
1970 Elinor Barkham
Elinor Barkham
Liz Newton
Countess Olivia
1969 Liz
Angela 'Tina' Richmond
Monique Grelle
1968 Mrs. Quinn
Mrs. Trennick
Self - Guest
Terry Lawrence
1967 Mme. Lisiere
Fay Carter
Beatrice
1966 N/A
1965 Amelia
Dorothy
Angela
Lynne Crawshaw
1963 Mena
Lady Vivian
1961 Pegeen O'Brien
Isobel
1960 Betty Clare
N/A
1959 Jane Buller
Sarah Malone
1958 Rachel
N/A
N/A
1957 Laura Shelton
Diana Maxwell
Deborah
Self
1956 Clara Willis
Mistress Higgins
Pam Barnes
Nurse Maureen O'Brien
Clara
N/A
Mary Paterson
1954 Nicky
Susan Thorne
Nurse Laurie
Mayolo
Doris
1953 Kirsty
1951 Young Christian Girl (uncredited)
Valerie
Year Character Movie/Tv

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