Adrienne Corri (1930 – 2016). Scottish-Italian actress.
She was born Adrienne Riccoboni in Glasgow, the daughter of Olive Smethurst and an Italian father, Luigi Riccoboni.
Despite having significant roles in many films, Corri is best known for one of her smaller parts, that of Mrs. Alexander, the wife of the writer Frank Alexander, in Stanley Kubrick's dystopian film A Clockwork Orange (1971).
Her other film roles included Lara's mother in David Lean's Dr. Zhivago (1965), and Dorothy in Otto Preminger's thriller Bunny Lake Is Missing (also 1965). She also appeared in a number of horror and suspense films until the 1970s.
The range and versatility of her acting is shown by appearances in such diverse productions as the science fiction movie Moon Zero Two (1969) where she played opposite the character actor Sam Kydd (Len the barman), and again in a television version of Twelfth Night (1969), directed by John Sichel, as the Countess Olivia, where she played opposite Alec Guinness as Malvolio.
Corri also had a major stage career, appearing regularly both in London and in the provincial theatres.
She was born Adrienne Riccoboni in Glasgow, the daughter of Olive Smethurst and an Italian father, Luigi Riccoboni.
Despite having significant roles in many films, Corri is best known for one of her smaller parts, that of Mrs. Alexander, the wife of the writer Frank Alexander, in Stanley Kubrick's dystopian film A Clockwork Orange (1971).
Her other film roles included Lara's mother in David Lean's Dr. Zhivago (1965), and Dorothy in Otto Preminger's thriller Bunny Lake Is Missing (also 1965). She also appeared in a number of horror and suspense films until the 1970s.
The range and versatility of her acting is shown by appearances in such diverse productions as the science fiction movie Moon Zero Two (1969) where she played opposite the character actor Sam Kydd (Len the barman), and again in a television version of Twelfth Night (1969), directed by John Sichel, as the Countess Olivia, where she played opposite Alec Guinness as Malvolio.
Corri also had a major stage career, appearing regularly both in London and in the provincial theatres.
- "Her distinctive auburn hair came from her mother's Lancastrian Mancunian Smethurst family." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Corri
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