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Francesca Annis

Highest Rated: 96% Shifty (2008)

Lowest Rated: 13% Revolver (2005)

Birthday: May 14, 1945

Birthplace: Kensington, London, England, UK

Attractive and seemingly ageless, Francesca Annis was an aspiring dancer when she began her film acting career in the late 1950s in teen roles, receiving her first major exposure as a handmaiden of Elizabeth Taylor in "Cleopatra" (1963). She was fashionably radical during London's swinging 60s, befriending such scenesters as guitar legend Jimi Hendrix before portraying Ophelia to Nicol Williamson's "Hamlet" on Broadway in 1969. As Lady Macbeth, Annis appeared nude in the sleepwalking scene in Roman Polanski's extra-gruesome "Macbeth" (1971), but when Hugh Hefner (one of the film's backers) asked her to pose for PLAYBOY, she replied, "I'm an actress, not a pinup." While a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1975-1978, she also starred as "Madame Bovary" (1976) and portrayed Lillie Langtry in "Lillie" (1978), with both acclaimed British productions broadcast later as segments of "Masterpiece Theatre" (PBS).

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Highest rated movies

96% 67% Shifty
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80% 73% Macbeth
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56% 67% Cleopatra Watchlist
48% 72% Onegin
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38% 67% Under the Cherry Moon
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36% 65% Dune Watchlist 35% 52% Krull Watchlist
34% 58% The Libertine
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31% 30% King of Thieves Watchlist
13% 56% Revolver
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hamlet ghost (Character) - 2024
31% 30% King of Thieves Lynne Reader (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet 14% Loving Miss Hatto Joyce Hatto (Character) - 2012
96% 67% Shifty Valerie (Character) - 2008
13% 56% Revolver Lily Walker (Character) $75.4K 2005
34% 58% The Libertine Countess (Character) $4.8M 2005
No Score Yet 65% Copenhagen Magrethe Bohr (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Deceit Ellen Richmond (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 29% Milk Harriet (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 74% The Debt Collector Val Dryden (Character) - 1999
48% 72% Onegin Katiusha (Character) $183.8K 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Reckless: The Sequel Anna Fairley (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Deadly Summer Celia Harcourt (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dalziel & Pascoe: An Autumn Shroud Bonnie Fielding (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 51% Doomsday Gun Sophie (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Weep No More My Lady Leila (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 77% Onassis: The Richest Man in the World Jacqueline Kennedy (Character) - 1988
38% 67% Under the Cherry Moon Mrs. Wellington (Character) $9.2M 1986
36% 65% Dune Lady Jessica (Character) - 1984
35% 52% Krull Widow of the Web (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 83% Coming Out of the Ice Galina (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Secret Adversary Tuppence Cowley (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 70% Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Lady Frances Derwent (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 89% Lillie Unknown (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stronger Than the Sun Kate Crowley (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sign It Death Tracy Conway (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Penny Gold Delphi/Diane (Character) - 1973
80% 73% Macbeth Lady Macbeth (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Pleasure Girls Sally (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Saturday Night Out Jean (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet 62% Flipper's New Adventure Gwen (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Eyes of Annie Jones Annie Jones (Character) - 1964
56% 67% Cleopatra Eiras (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 40% Crooks in Cloisters June (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Young Jacobites Jean (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Cat Gang Sylvia (Character) - 1959

TV

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88% 74% Showtrial Dame Harriet Kenny (Character) 2024
90% No Score Yet Flesh and Blood on Masterpiece Vivien (Character) 2020
100% 87% Home Fires Joyce Cameron (Character) 2015-2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Masterpiece Classic Unknown (Character) 2008 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Return to Cranford on Masterpiece Lady Ludlow (Character) 2007 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Masterpiece Theatre Unknown (Character) 1998-1999 2001 2007
No Score Yet 100% Jane Eyre Lady Ingram (Character) 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wives and Daughters Mrs Gibson (Character) 1999
82% 90% Tales From the Crypt Unknown (Character) 1996
No Score Yet 95% Magnum, P.I. Penelope St. Clair (Guest Star) 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Madame Bovary Unknown (Character) 1976 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Call My Bluff Self,
Contestant
1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet El Santo Maria (Guest Star) 1966