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Billie Honor Whitelaw CBE (6 June 1932 – 21 December 2014) was an English actress. She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and was regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. She was also known for her portrayal of Mrs. Baylock, the demonic nanny in the 1976 horror film The Omen.
Dec 22, 2014 · B illie Whitelaw, who has died aged 82 after a long illness, was inescapably identified with the work of Samuel Beckett, the playwright who once described her as “the perfect actress”.
Not I is a short dramatic monologue written in 1972 (20 March to 1 April) by Samuel Beckett which was premiered at the "Samuel Beckett Festival" by the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, New York (22 November 1972). Synopsis. Not I takes place in a pitch-black space illuminated only by a single beam of light.
May 8, 2013 · He then wrote to its director Alan Schnieder to say he would direct Billie Whitelaw in London himself, "to find out if this is theatre or not". In 2005, I was sent the script by the director...
- Lisa Dwan
Billie Whitelaw first appeared on the radio aged 11. She made her theatrical debut in 1950 and in films from 1953. She has made a speciality of playing intense, single-purposed women. Also, (on stage), she has appeared in many of the stranger plays by Samuel Beckett.
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Dec 23, 2014 · Billie Whitelaw, the English actress who became both acolyte and muse to the playwright Samuel Beckett and one of the foremost interpreters of his austere and deeply unsettling work, died...
Dec 22, 2014 · After performing Samuel Beckett’s mouth-only performance Not I, Lisa Dwan found a valuable guide in Beckett’s muse, Billie Whitelaw, who died this week. She remembers Whitelaw’s tenacity,...
