Francesca Annis

ACTRESS

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

English actress Francesca Annis, who has enjoyed a 50-plus year career, spanning seven decades in movies, television and the theater, was born in London six days after V-E Day, on May 14, 1945. Her father, Lester, was English, but her mother, Mariquita (aka Mara Purcell), was of Brazilian-French heritage. From the time she was a year old to the age of seven, the family lived in Brazil. The young Francesca spoke Portuguese, that country's language, as a child. Educated at a convent school, she dreamed of becoming a nun but trained as a ballet dancer before studying drama at the Corona Theatre School. She began acting in bit parts in the 1950s, working her way up to better roles. In addition to appearing on the big and little screens, she was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.Her most famous roles are as Lady Macbeth in Roman Polanski's version of Macbeth (1971), in which she had a notorious nude sleepwalking scene, and as Kyle MacLachlan (Paul Atreides)' mother Lady Jessica in David Lynch's adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune - Der Wüstenplanet (1984). A highly respected performer, in 1979, she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, playing Lily Langtry in the miniseries Lillie (1978). She appeared with James Warwick as husband and wife sleuths Tommy and Tuppence Beresford in the television series Detektei Blunt (1983). She also appeared as Jacqueline Kennedy in the television movie Onassis, der reichste Mann der Welt (1988). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jon C. Hopwood

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Francesca Annis’s flixes, followed by BritBox compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Francesca Annis on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1970 to 2020. See the full graphs of the number of Francesca Annis movies released per year from 1992 till 2020.

Top Genres

Francesca Annis works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Crime Genre flixes. 48% of Francesca Annis movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Francesca Annis worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Francesca Annis has worked on is 7.0.

7.0 / 10

Francesca Annis's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Adventure,Biography,Drama
Lillie (1978)

Lillie Langtry, trapped in a loveless marriage, takes full advantage of her beauty, attracting many lovers and admirers including the Prince of Wales and Oscar Wilde. As her husband slowly ...

8.3/1052 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Emma Bovary is the dreamy, frustrated, unfaithful wife of a French country doctor in this National Emmy-nominated adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece.

7.8/10220 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Mystery
Partners in Crime (1983)

Agatha Christie's husband-and-wife sleuthing team take on a series of short whodunit mysteries.

7.5/1050 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Drama,History
Macbeth (1971)

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.

7.4/10140 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Adventure,Crime,Drama
The Secret Adversary (1983)

After two old friends accidentally meet and resolve to become investigators for hire, they quickly become embroiled in a missing treaty and a Bolshevik conspiracy.

7.3/10115 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Drama,History,War
Copenhagen (2002)

A television adaptation of Michael Frayn's celebrated and award-winning stage play about the meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941 Copenhagen. At this time the...

7.2/1090 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

While golfing on the Welsh coast, Bobby Jones apparently hits a stranger who falls off the the sea cliff. His enigmatic last words are "Why didn't they ask Evans?"

7/10180 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

In 1953 William Barrington-Coupe - known as Barrie - spots concert pianist Joyce Hatto and recognizes her talent. They marry with Barrie becoming Joyce's agent. She makes several records,...

6.6/1090 min

Available in 2 platform(s).