to have someone else's input on anything – a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk – is fantastic" and expressing optimism as she looked to her future, stating "'I like to have a big open canvas. I think, 'Oh, f– it, life's too short'" and that though single, she "believes it is better to be with someone than alone", stating "I think you live a fuller life. Īt age 64, in an interview with Tim Auld of The Telegraph in 2009, Annis described herself as being one that tends "to forget the bad things – I don't dwell on them. Annis and Fiennes announced their separation on 7 February 2006, after 11 years together, in a parting described as "acrimonious", following rumours that he had had an affair with the Romanian singer Cornelia Crisan. Annis is said to have "apologised to Wiseman" over their parting. Annis began a relationship with Hamlet co-star Ralph Fiennes in 1995, ending her 23-year relationship with Wiseman in 1997 Fiennes in turn divorced his wife of four years, Alex Kingston. Personal life Īnnis was in a relationship with photographer Patrick Wiseman that began in 1974, raising three children, Charlotte, Taran, and Andreas. More recently, Annis played a leading role in the ITV drama Home Fires.
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Annis co-starred with Sir Michael Gambon and Dame Judi Dench as Lady Ludlow (an aristocrat opposed to the education of the lower classes) in the BBC1 costume-drama series Cranford (2007). She appeared in television productions in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s in series such as Edward the Seventh (1975) as Lillie Langtry, a role she reprised in Lillie (1978) Madame Bovary (1975) and Parnell and the Englishwoman (1991), in which she played Kitty O'Shea as well as the miniseries Reckless (1998) and its 2000 sequel. She returned to the stage in April 2009, to star as Mrs Conway in Rupert Goold's National Theatre revival of J. At the Comedy Theatre between September 2005 and January 2006, Annis starred as Ruth in Epitaph for George Dillon with Joseph Fiennes. Īt the National Theatre in 1981, she played Natalya Petrovna in Peter Gill's production of Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country. She portrayed Mrs Wellington in the second film and directorial debut by Prince, Under The Cherry Moon (1986).Īnnis pursued a stage career, playing leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, such as Luciana in Trevor Nunn's musical version of The Comedy of Errors (1976) and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet alongside Ian McKellen (1977). Annis played Jacqueline Kennedy in Onassis: The Richest Man in the World in 1988.
She appeared as Tuppence with James Warwick as Tommy in The Secret Adversary (1983) and the subsequent series, Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime (1983–84). Īnnis played the "Widow of the Web" in the 1983 science fantasy film Krull, and starred as Lady Jessica in the 1984 David Lynch science fiction film Dune. and the wardrobe mistress rushes to cover Francesca with a dressing gown the instant Roman says, 'Cut'". though of course the set is closed, great curtains are drawn around the acting area. "Francesca does it very sportingly and with no fuss. The critic Kenneth Tynan was present when the scene was shot: She garnered attention for her performance as Lady Macbeth in Roman Polanski's film version of Macbeth (1971) in which she performs the sleepwalking soliloquy nude. She played Estella in a television adaptation of Great Expectations (1967) and presented children's television programmes. Her big break was as one of the leads in the 1965 West End stage musical Passion Flower Hotel. Her first major film role was as Elizabeth Taylor's handmaiden in Cleopatra (1963), in which she was cast at the age of 16 while still studying Russian ballet.
Career Īnnis began acting professionally in her teens, and made her film debut in The Cat Gang (1959). Īnnis was educated at a convent school, and trained in her early years as a ballet dancer, with training in the Russian style at the Corona Stage Academy. In recollecting the years in Brazil, she described her parents as running "a nightclub on Copacabana beach", and her mother Mara "performing as a blues singer". The Annises moved to Brazil when Francesca was one year old, and spent six years there, returning to England when she was seven. Mara was from a wealthy Brazilian family. Both were sometime actors and Mara a sometime singer. Annis was born in Kensington, London in 1945, to an English father, Lester William Anthony Annis (1914–2001) and a Brazilian-French mother, Mariquita (Mara) Purcell (1913–2009).