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Vera Lindsay

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Name
  
Vera Lindsay


Died
  
1992

Vera Lindsay (née Poliakoff; 1911–1992) was a British Shakespearean actress.

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Career

Vera Lindsay performed at The Old Vic during the 1930s alongside Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and under the direction of Michel Saint-Denis.

She also appeared in a number of early TV productions including Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress (1939), Katharine and Petruchio (1939), The Tempest (1939), Twelfth Night (1939) and Spellbound (1941)

Personal life

Lindsay was daughter of Vladimir Poliakoff. She was married to:

  • Major Percy Basil Harmsworth Burton
  • the News Chronicle editor Gerald Barry. Their son Stephen was a stage director and performing arts administrator.
  • John Russell CBE, a British American art critic

    • Selected filmography

  • Spellbound (1941)

    • References

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