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Greenwood, Joan (1921–1987)British actress. Born in London, England, on March 4, 1921; died in London in February 1987; daughter of Sydney Barnshaw (an artist) and Ida (Waller) Greenwood; attended St. Catherine's, Bramley, Surrey; attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts; married André Morell (an actor), on May 16, 1960 (died 1978); children: one son.
Joan Mary Waller Greenwood was an English actress. Her husky voice, coupled with her slow, precise elocution, was her trademark. She played Sibella in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets, and also appeared in The Man in the White Suit , Young Wives' Tale , The Importance of Being Earnest , Stage Struck , Tom Jones and Little Dorrit .
Joan Greenwood (4 March 1921 – 27 February 1987) was an English actress. Born in Chelsea, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her husky voice, coupled with her slow, precise elocution, was her trademark. Perhaps her most famous role was Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Greenwood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full ...
Actor. Married fron 1960 until his death in 1978. Offbeat, petite, uniquely plummy-voiced leading lady who graced several classic British comedies of the 1940s and 50s, including "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949), "The Man in the White Suit" (1951) and the screen version of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1952).
Silky, sultry-voiced comic actress Joan Greenwood was the daughter of renowned British artist Sydney Earnshaw Greenwood. Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she made her stage debut at age 18; three years later she was cast by actor/director Leslie Howard in the lead of the wartime morale-booster The Gentle Sex (1942).
Joan Greenwood, of the plummy feline voice, was born in the well-to-do London district of Chelsea, the daughter of renowned portrait painter Sydney Earnshaw Greenwood (1887-1949). Dancing from the age of eight, she took ballet lessons and later enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
Added: Nov 10, 2011. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 80227312. Sponsored by Malcolm James. Source citation. Actress who with her strikingly good looks and recognisable voice went on to charm the cinema going public and theatre going fans through the 40s and 60s. She made her first stage appearence in November 1938 in The Robust Invalid Being only 5ft ...
