BMD-Certificates.co.uk Celebrates the Birthday of Wendy Hiller With Their Birth Certificate
BMD-Certificates (www.BMD-Certificates.co.uk), a Website which offers a specialized service to search for and supply copy certified and official U.K. birth certificates, marriage certificates, and death certificates, celebrates the birthday of Wendy Hiller, the latest in a series commemorating important figures born in the UK, by making their birth certificate available as part of their services.
(PRWEB) August 15, 2005 -- BMD-Certificates (www.BMD-Certificates.co.uk), a Website which offers a specialized service to search for and supply copy certified and official U.K. birth certificates, marriage certificates, and death certificates, celebrates the birthday of Wendy Hiller by making their birth certificate available as part of their services, which can be purchased by visiting http://www.bmd-certificates.co.uk/wendy_hiller.html
This birth certificate is one of a ongoing series commemorating some of the great people who have been born in the UK and gone on to world prominence in their field, and offers an unique glimpse into their life, and are the perfect item for collectors, fans, historians and researchers alike.
All certificates are full and official birth certificates acquired from the relevant General Register Office in the United Kingdom where the birth was originally registered.
Dame Wendy Hiller (August 15, 1912 -- May 14, 2003) was a distinguished English film and stage actress.
Born Wendy Margaret Hiller in Cheshire, England, the daughter of Frank Watkin Hiller and Marie Stone, her professional debut as an actress was in repertory at Manchester. She first found success in the stage version of Love on the Dole, and in 1936 married the author Ronald Gow. Her performance in Love on the Dole attracted the attention of George Bernard Shaw, and he cast her in several of his plays, including Saint Joan, Pygmalion and Major Barbara. Unlike other actresses of her generation, she did relatively little Shakespeare, preferring the more modern dramatists such as Henrik Ibsen and new plays adapted from the novels of Henry James and Thomas Hardy among others.
Her impressive film debut in Pygmalion earned her a nomination for an Oscar in 1938 for her role as Eliza Doolittle. She followed up this success with another Shaw classic, Major Barbara, in 1941, and starred in the 1945 Powell & Pressburger classic I Know Where I'm Going. Despite these and several other notable performances, she remained primarily a stage actress. Nevertheless, she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1958 for the film Separate Tables, and was nominated again in 1966 for her performance as Dame Alice (wife of Sir Thomas More) in A Man for All Seasons. The tragic and abused colonial wife in Outcast of the Islands (1952), her complex performance as the possessive mother in Sons and Lovers (1960) and as the wonderfully grotesque Russian Princess in Murder on the Orient Express (1974) are also considered particularly memorable.
In the course of her stage career, Wendy Hiller won popular and critical acclaim in both London and New York. She excelled at rather plain but strong willed characters, most notably in The Heiress, Waters of the Moon, Flowering Cherry and The Aspern Papers. She was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award in 1958 as Best Dramatic Actress for her performance in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. Later West End successes such as Queen Mary in Crown Matrimonial in 1972 proved she was not limited to playing dejected, emotionally deprived women.
Wendy Hiller was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1975. Regarded as one of Britain's great dramatic talents, her style was disciplined and unpretentious, and she abhorred personal publicity.
Dame Wendy's final West End performance was the title role in Driving Miss Daisy in 1988. She made many notable television appearances in the 1980s, including Miss Morrison's Ghosts (1981) and the BBC dramatization of the Vita Sackville-West novel All Passion Spent (1986). She eventually retired from acting in 1992. She died at her home in Beaconsfield in 2003 at the age of 90.
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