Celia Johnson
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Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE (18 December 1908 – 25 April 1982) was a British actress.
She began her stage acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End and Broadway productions. She also appeared in several films, including the romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for BAFTA Awards on five occasions, and won twice, for her work in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), and for the television production Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, a BBC Play for Today broadcast in 1973.
Much of her later work was for television, and she continued performing in theatre for the rest of her life. She died suddenly from a stroke.
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Known for
Play for Today
Mrs. Palfrey
Omnibus
Ellen Edgeworth
BBC Play of the Month
Mrs. Alving
BBC Play of the Month
Judith Bliss
BBC Play of the Month
Sheila
BBC Play of the Month
Eloise
BBC Play of the Month
Madame Ranyevskaya
A Bolt of Lightning
Mary Otis
Les Misérables
Sister Simplice
Brief Encounter
Laura Jesson
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Miss Mackay
In Which We Serve
Mrs. Kinross / Alix
The Holly and the Ivy
Jenny Gregory
Romeo and Juliet
Nurse
This Happy Breed
Ethel Gibbons
A Kid for Two Farthings
Joanna
All's Well That Ends Well
Countess of Rousillon
I Believe in You
Matty Matheson
The Hostage Tower
Mrs. Wheeler
The Captain's Paradise
Maud St. James
Dear Octopus
Cynthia
Love Affair
Mrs Hobbish
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Mrs. Palfrey
The Good Companions
Miss Trant
Staying On
Lucy Smalley
The Dame of Sark
Sybil Hathaway
Lloyd George Knew My Father
Lady Sheila Boothroyd
The Astonished Heart
Barbara Faber
The Cherry Orchard
Madame Ranevskaya
The Emperor's New Hat
La Comtesse de Chemaille
Letter from Home
Mrs Taylor