Anna Lee
| Anna Lee | |
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Anna Lee as Lila Quartermaine on General Hospital
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| Born |
Joan Boniface Winnifrith 2 January 1913 Ightham, Kent, England |
| Died | 14 May 2004 (aged 91) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery |
| Years active | 1932–2002 |
| Spouse(s) |
Robert Stevenson (m. 1934–44) George Stafford (m. 1944–64) Robert Nathan (m. 1970; d. 1985) |
| Children | 5 |
| Awards | 1983 Soapy Awards for Favorite Woman in a Mature Role in General Hospital 1998 Soap Opera Digest Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role in General Hospital |
Anna Lee, MBE (born Joan Boniface Winnifrith 2 January 1913 – 14 May 2004) was a British-born American actress.
Lee trained at the Royal Albert Hall, then made her début with a bit part in His Lordship (1932), when she was 19. She played a number of minor, often uncredited, roles in films during the early 1930s. She gradually began to get more prominent roles in quota quickies, particularly those made for Paramount British. She became known for her roles in films set amongst the wealthy particularly in Chelsea Life (1933), in which she starred with Louis Hayward. The film was set in the artistic community of Chelsea.
On the strength of her performances in quota films, in 1934 Lee signed a contract with Gainsborough Pictures, which was the biggest British production company of the era. She played leading lady roles in a variety of different genres at Gainsborough including a comedy-thriller The Camels Are Coming, a drama The Passing of the Third Floor Back, a horror film The Man Who Changed His Mind and a war film O.H.M.S.. She appeared in the 1935 Jessie Matthews musical First a Girl as the aristocratic other woman. In 1937 she starred in one of the studio's large-budget productions, King Solomon's Mines.
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