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Actress. Years active. 1920–1969. Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 1900 – 13 June 1969) was an Argentine -born British theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range of powerful characters. She is best remembered for her performance as Miss Havisham in David Lean 's Great Expectations (1946).
Martita Hunt (1900-1969) Martita Hunt. Popular British character actress known for her rich cluster of queens, dowagers, shrews and evildoers, Martita Hunt was born on a ranch in Argentina to British parents, but moved with her family to England at age 10 for her formal education. On stage at age 21 with the Liverpool Repertory Theatre, she ...
- January 1, 1
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- January 1, 1
- London, England, UK
Martita Hunt. Actress: Great Expectations. Popular British character actress known for her rich cluster of queens, dowagers, shrews and evildoers, Martita Hunt was born on a ranch in Argentina to British parents, but moved with her family to England at age 10 for her formal education. On stage at age 21 with the Liverpool Repertory Theatre, she grew in stature as a dramatic actress with the ...
- January 30, 1900
- June 13, 1969
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 1900 – 13 June 1969) was an Argentine-born British theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range of powerful characters. She is best remembered for her performance as Miss Havisham in David Lean's Great Expectations.
Martita Hunt. Martita Hunt (1900 - 1969) Despite appearing in over seventy films, Martita Hunt's cinema career is dominated by one role: that of Miss Haversham in Great Expectations. She was born in Buenos Aires to British parents, and was sent to England to boarding school at the age of ten. She trained for the stage and joined Liverpool Rep.
Martita Hunt was a formidable Argentine-born actress with a rich voice. She made her name on the British stage and screen and used her horsey features and dominant plainness to create a colorful gallery of villainesses and (later) eccentric dowagers. She was perhaps most memorable as 'Miss Havisham' in the 1946 film "Great Expectations".
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Actress Martita Hunt was born in Buenos Aires to British parents and lived there until she was 10 years old, when the family moved back to England. After she graduated from Queenwood Ladies' College, Hunt received tutelage as an actress from Lady Benson and Dame Genevieve Ward, an American-born actress and singer.
