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Adrienne Corri

 
Actor: Adrienne Corri
  • Born: Nov 13, 1930 in Glasgow, Scotland
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '50s-'80s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Science Fiction
  • Career Highlights: A Clockwork Orange, The Little Kidnappers, Lease of Life
  • First Major Screen Credit: Make Me an Offer (1954)

Biography

Despite the Mediterranean flavor of her name, actress Adrienne Corri was born in Scotland and made her 1948 stage debut in London. A strikingly attractive redhead, Adrienne was often cast in seductive roles. Few of her big-budget films gave her much opportunity; she seemed more at home in such science fiction and horror items as Devil Girl from Mars (1954), Corridors of Blood (1958), The Tell-Tale Heart (1960) and Vampire Circus (1971). In films until 1979, Adrienne Corri was most spectacularly featured in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971), in which futuristic punk Malcolm McDowell ritualistically rapes her while dancing to the tune of "Singin' In the Rain" ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Adrienne Corri
Born Adrienne Riccoboni
13 November 1933 (1933-11-13) (age 76)
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Occupation Actress
Spouse(s) Derek Fowlds (?-?)
Daniel Massey (1961-1967)

Adrienne Corri (born 13 November 1933 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is an actress of Italian parentage.

She is probably best known for her role as the rape victim Mrs. Alexander in the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange, and for her appearances as Valerie in Jean Renoir's The River (1951) and as Lara's mother in David Lean's Dr. Zhivago (1965). She appeared in many horror and suspense films in the 1950s until the 1970s including Devil Girl from Mars, The Tell-Tale Heart, A Study in Terror and Vampire Circus. She also appeared as Therese Duval in Revenge of the Pink Panther. She also was in the 1969 science fiction movie Moon Zero Two and in the 1969 Twelfth Night, directed by John Sichel, as the Countess Olivia opposite Alec Guinness as Malvolio.

Her numerous television credits include a regular role in A Family At War and You're Only Young Twice, a 1971 television play by Jack Trevor Story, as Mena in the Doctor Who story "The Leisure Hive" and guest starred as the mariticidal Liz Newton in the UFO episode "The Square Triangle".

She has also appeared on stage. There is a story that, when the audience booed on the first night of John Osborne's The World Of Paul Slickey, Corri responded with her own abuse: she raised two fingers to the audience and shouted "Go, fuck yourselves".[1]

She has married and divorced twice, to the actors Daniel Massey (1961-1967) and Derek Fowlds.

Her book The Search for Gainsborough (Jonathan Cape: 1984) contained much original research, including examination of banking records, and made a plausible case for 1726 as his birth year.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ Billington, Michael (2006-09-01). "Sounding off". Culture Vulture. Guardian Unlimited. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2006/09/01/sounding_off_1.html.  Note that Billington only repeats the story, without confirming or providing any evidence of its truth.

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