Eleanor Bron
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Bron in 1968
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| Born |
14 March 1938 Stanmore, Middlesex, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actress, author |
| Years active | 1959–present |
| Partner(s) | Cedric Price (1934–2003); widowed |
Eleanor Bron (born 14 March 1938) is an English stage, film and television actress, and an author. She is best known for her roles as Ahme in Help! and Miss Minchin in A Little Princess (1995).
Bron was born in 1938 in Stanmore, Middlesex, into a Jewish family. Before her birth, her father Sidney had legally changed his name from Bronstein to Bron, in an effort to enhance his newly founded commercial enterprise, Bron's Orchestral Service.
She attended the North London Collegiate School and then Newnham College, Cambridge. She later characterised her time at Newnham as "three years of unparalleled pampering and privilege".
Bron was the partner of the architect Cedric Price for many years until his death in 2003; they had no children. Her elder brother was the record producer Gerry Bron.
Bron began her career in the Cambridge Footlights revue of 1959, entitled The Last Laugh, in which Peter Cook also appeared. The addition of a female performer to the Footlights was a departure; until that time it had been all-male, with female characters portrayed in drag.
Her film appearances include the role of Ahme in the Beatles' film Help! (1965); her name inspired Paul McCartney when he composed "Eleanor Rigby". Other roles included the doctor who grounds Michael Caine's character in Alfie (1966), the unattainable Margaret Spencer in Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's film Bedazzled (1967), Hermione Roddice in Ken Russell's Women in Love (1969) and Sisters McFee and MacArthur in The National Health (1973).
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