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Former long-term companion was British actor Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient (1996)). They met while performing the play "Hamlet" in 1994. She portrayed Gertrude, he played Hamlet. The couple broke up in February 2006.

She appeared with James Warwick as husband and wife sleuths Tommy and Tuppence Beresford in the television series Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence: Partners in Crime (1983).

A highly respected performer, in 1979, she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, playing Lily Langtry in the miniseries Lillie (1978).

Although she played Joanna David's mother in Lillie (1978), she is only a year and a half, her senior, in real life.

She played the English stage actress Lily Langtry in both Edward the King (1975) and Lillie (1978).

Her most famous roles are as Lady Macbeth in Roman Polanski's version of Macbeth (1971), in which she had a notorious nude sleepwalking scene, and as Kyle MacLachlan (Paul Atreides)' mother Lady Jessica in David Lynch's adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune (1984).

She played Ophelia to Nicol Williamson's famous Hamlet (1969), directed by Tony Richardson, in both London at the Roundhouse and on Broadway. Richardson cast Marianne Faithfull in the film version made that same year. When Roman Polanski was casting Macbeth (1971) a year later, he vetoed co-screenwriter Kenneth Tynan's suggestion of Williamson for the title role and nixed Faithfull for the role of Lady Macbeth that went to Annis due to her heroin addiction. A generation later, Annis played the role of Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, to her then-lover Ralph Fiennes 1995 Hamlet in London and Broadway.

She began acting in bit parts in the 1950s, working her way up to better roles. In addition to appearing on the big and little screens, she was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

English actress Francesca Annis, who has enjoyed a career spanning seven decades in movies, television and the theater, was born in London six days after V-E Day, on May 14, 1945. Her father, Lester, was English, but her mother, Mariquita (aka Mara Purcell), was of Brazilian-French heritage. From the time she was a year old to the age of seven, the family lived in Brazil. The young Francesca spoke Portuguese, that country's language, as a child. Educated at a convent school, she dreamed of becoming a nun but trained as a ballet dancer before studying drama at the Corona Theatre School.

Daughter of actor Leslie William Anthony "Anthony" Annis (1914-2001) and actress Mara Purcell, and brother of Tony Annis.

She played Lily Langtry between the ages of 15 (in 1868) and 75 (in 1929) in Lillie (1978).