Edina Ronay

Edina Ronay FRSA (born 1944, Budapest, Hungary) is an Anglo-Hungarian fashion designer and former actress. She is the daughter of food critic Egon Ronay and the mother of actress/writer Shebah Ronay. In films and television from 1960, Ronay's numerous TV roles included The Avengers, No Hiding Place, Special Branch, The Champions and Jason King.

She retired from acting in the mid-1970s to take up fashion design, specialising in knitwear; she eventually formed her own company in 1984. Ronay was honoured as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Ronay was born in Budapest where her parents lived before the Second World War. At the time Budapest was equal to Paris as an artistic and cultural centre of Europe. Edina's family owned several restaurants around Budapest, the most famous of which was Belvarosi, an elegant restaurant in the heart of the city.

During the war, her family lost everything. Immediately afterwards, her father, who had studied law at Cambridge, was far-sighted enough to realise the political situation was changing in Hungary and packed the family up and moved them to Britain to start a new life. Having grown up in the restaurant industry, it felt only natural for him to open a restaurant of his own in London, and for good measure, Egon decided to open it directly opposite Harrods in Knightsbridge. A few years later, he started The Egon Ronay Guide.

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