Meriel Forbes
Actor, Film actor
1913 – 2000
Who was Meriel Forbes?
Meriel Forbes was an English actress. She was a granddaughter of Norman Forbes-Robertson and great-niece of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. After making her stage debut with her father's touring company in 1929 she progressed via provincial repertory to the West End, where she appeared continually from the 1930s to the 1970s.
She married the actor Ralph Richardson in 1944, and the couple regularly appeared together in London, and on tour in the UK, continental Europe, Australia and North and South America. She made her first film in 1934 and made fourteen more films between then and 1969.
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- Born
- Sep 13, 1913
Fulham - Also known as
- Meriel Forbes-Robertson
- Merial Forbes
- Lady Richardson
- Meriel Forbes, Lady Richardson
- Meriel Smiley Forbes
- Meriel "Mu" Forbes
- Mu
- Mu Forbes
- Parents
- Spouses
- Ralph Richardson
(1944/01/26 - 1983/10/10)
- Ralph Richardson
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 7, 2000
London
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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