July 4, 2011

Anna Massey – a life in pictures

Actor Anna Massey – whose long career stretched across television, theatre and cinema – has died. We look back at some of her best moments

Anna Massey: 1955: English actress Adrianne Allen with her daughter actress Anna Massey — In this picture, taken in 1955, Massey poses (right) with her mother, Adrianne Allen. Allen was also a well-known actor and took starring roles on Broadway in the 1930s
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Anna Massey: 1955: Actress Anna Massey with her father the actor Raymond Massey — Massey with her father, actor Raymond Massey, in London (1955). She had just made her stage debut in The Reluctant Debutante at the Cambridge Theatre. She won a Tony nomination for her performance Photograph: Rex Features

Anna Massey: 1960: Anna Massey with Karlheinz Bohm in Peeping Tom — An early film role saw Massey subjected to voyeurism and torture under the eyes of Karlheinz Böhm in Michael Powell's controversial Peeping Tom (1960) Photograph: Photos 12/Alamy

Laurence Olivier and Anna Massey in Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake is Missing (1965) — Massey shared the screen with Laurence Olivier in Otto Preminger's psychological thriller, Bunny Lake is Missing (1965) Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

Anna Massey: 1962: Anna Massey with husband Jeremy Brett and their young son in Chelsea — Massey married her first husband, actor Jeremy Brett, in 1958. The couple had their son, David, before they divorced in 1962
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Anna Massey: 1964: Actress Anna Massey at the London Palladium in the Night of 100 stars — 1964's Night of 100 Stars at the London Palladium. Massey dances second left, with (left to right) Susan Hampshire, Miriam Karlin, Hayley Mills and Barbara Windsor
Photograph: PA Photograph: Action images

Anna Massey: 1971: Alfred Hitchcock discusses filming with Anna Massey — Massey with Alfred Hitchcock in Covent Garden Market, 1971. She was the female lead in Frenzy, a Hitchcock thriller in which a serial killer murdered women with a necktie, which was released the following year Photograph: Leonard Brown/AP

Anna Massey: 1979: BBC television production of Rebecca — Some of Massey's biggest roles were on the small screen. Here she plays Mrs Danvers in a 1979 BBC production of Rebecca. Her former husband Jeremy Brett played Maxim de Winter, with Joanna David (centre) as Mrs de Winter Photograph: BBC

Anna Massey: 1982: The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre — Massey's stage work included a 1982 performance of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre. Massey played Miss Prism alongside Zoe Wanamaker (Gwendolen) and Judi Dench (Lady Bracknell). Massey was awarded the Laurence Olivier theatre award for best actress in a supporting role for her performance Photograph: Alastair Muir/Rex Features

Anna Massey: 1986: English actress Anna Massey — Massey's other television work included appearances in The Cherry Orchard (1980), Anna Karenina (1985) and later, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008) Photograph: David Montgomery/Getty Images

Anna Massey: 1986: In BBC TV's Hotel Du Lac — Massey received a Bafta for her part in BBC drama Hotel du Lac (1986), in which a romantic novelist retires to a secluded hotel after a string of failed relationships Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

Anna Massey: 1992: Anna Massey in The Darling Buds of May — By 1992 Massey was a regular on the Yorkshire Television comedy drama series The Darling Buds of May. She played Mlle Antoinette Dupont, seen here alongside David Jason as Pop Larkin. The show ran from 1991-93 Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

Anna Massey: 2005: Anna Massey with her CBE medal after her investiture — In 2005 Massey became Anna Massey CBE for her services to drama
Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA Photograph: Fiona Hanson/Action images

Anna Massey: 2006: Anna Massey as Phyllis in A Good Murder — Massey played an overbearing, arthritic mother in the 2006 ITV drama, A Good Murder. Her character was the owner of a £2m pound house, a fact that hadn't escaped the notice of her daughter Kay and her shady boyfriend Niko ... Photograph: Sally Head Productions for Itv/BFI

Anna Massey: 2008 : In the TV series Affinity — In one of her last roles Massey played Miss Haxby in the TV drama Affinity. Based on Sarah Waters's novel, the show followed Margeret Prior, a young socialite who becomes enchanted by a medium during her visits as a mentor to Millbank prison Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

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