Her first major film role was as Elizabeth Taylor's handmaiden in Cleopatra (1963), in which she was cast at the age of 16 while still studying Russian ballet. Career Īnnis began acting professionally in her teens, and made her film debut in The Cat Gang (1959). Īnnis was educated at a convent school, and trained in her early years as a ballet dancer, with training in the Russian style at the Corona Stage Academy. In recollecting the years in Brazil, she described her parents as running "a nightclub on Copacabana beach", and her mother Mara "performing as a blues singer". The Annises moved to Brazil when Francesca was one year old, and spent six years there, returning to England when she was seven. Mara was from a wealthy Brazilian family. Both were sometime actors and Mara a sometime singer. Her film appearances include Krull (1983), Dune (1984), The Debt Collector (1999), and The Libertine (2004).Īnnis was born in Kensington, London in 1945, to an English father, Lester William Anthony Annis (1914–2001) and a Brazilian-French mother, Mariquita (Mara) Purcell (1913–2009). A six-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 1979 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the ITV serial Lillie. She is known for television roles in Reckless (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), Deceit (2000), and Cranford (2007). Francesca Annis (born ) is an English actress.
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