Margaret Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 â€" 15 July 1990), was an
English actress. One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s
and 1940s, her film appearances included The Lady Vanishes (1938),
Night Train to Munich (1940), The Man in Grey (1943), and The Wicked
Lady (1945). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British
Actress for the 1955 film Cast a Dark Shadow. She also starred in the
television series Justice (1971â€"74).Margaret Mary Day Lockwood was
born on 15 September 1916 in Karachi, British India, to Henry Francis
Lockwood, an English administrator of a railway company, and his
Scottish third wife Margaret Eveline Waugh. She returned to England in
1920 with her mother, brother 'Lyn' and half-brother Frank, and a
further half-sister 'Fay' joined them the following year, but her
father remained in Karachi, visiting them infrequently. She also had
another half-brother, John, from her father's first marriage, brought
up by his mother in Britain. Lockwood attended Sydenham High School
for girls, and a ladies' school in Kensington, London.She began
studying for the stage at an early age at the Italia Conti Academy of
Theatre Arts, and made her debut in 1928, at the age of 12, at the
Holborn Empire where she played a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
In December of the following year, she appeared at the Scala Theatre
in the pantomime The Babes in the Wood. In 1932 she appeared at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in Cavalcade.
English actress. One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s
and 1940s, her film appearances included The Lady Vanishes (1938),
Night Train to Munich (1940), The Man in Grey (1943), and The Wicked
Lady (1945). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British
Actress for the 1955 film Cast a Dark Shadow. She also starred in the
television series Justice (1971â€"74).Margaret Mary Day Lockwood was
born on 15 September 1916 in Karachi, British India, to Henry Francis
Lockwood, an English administrator of a railway company, and his
Scottish third wife Margaret Eveline Waugh. She returned to England in
1920 with her mother, brother 'Lyn' and half-brother Frank, and a
further half-sister 'Fay' joined them the following year, but her
father remained in Karachi, visiting them infrequently. She also had
another half-brother, John, from her father's first marriage, brought
up by his mother in Britain. Lockwood attended Sydenham High School
for girls, and a ladies' school in Kensington, London.She began
studying for the stage at an early age at the Italia Conti Academy of
Theatre Arts, and made her debut in 1928, at the age of 12, at the
Holborn Empire where she played a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
In December of the following year, she appeared at the Scala Theatre
in the pantomime The Babes in the Wood. In 1932 she appeared at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in Cavalcade.
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