Virginia McKenna

Virginia McKenna

British actress (born 1931)

95 years oldGeminiUnited Kingdom

Biography

Dame Virginia Anne McKenna (born 7 June 1931) is a British actress. She is best known for the films The Cruel Sea (1953), A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with the Born Free Foundation.

McKenna won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress in 1956. For A Town Like Alice, she won the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in 1957, and in 1979 won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for The King and I, making her one of the few to have completed the British Triple Crown.

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Career highlights

Instruments

  • voice

Family

Children
Will Travers
Parents
Terence Morell McKennaAnne Maria de Nys

Awards & honours (4)

  • Laurence Olivier Awards
  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire
  • British Academy Television Award for Best Actress
  • Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical

Quick answers about Virginia McKenna

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Virginia McKenna is 95 years old (born June 7, 1931).
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Virginia McKenna was born on June 7, 1931.
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Virginia McKenna was born in Marylebone.
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Virginia McKenna's zodiac sign is Gemini.
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Virginia McKenna is a citizen of United Kingdom.
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Virginia McKenna is known as actor, film actor, singer, stage actor.
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According to Wikidata, Virginia McKenna's spouses include Denholm Elliott, Bill Travers.
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Wikidata lists 1 child of Virginia McKenna.

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