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Cathleen Nesbitt, CBE (24 November 18882 August 1982) was a British actress of stage, film and television. ==Biography== Born in Cheshire, England to Thomas and Mary Catherine (née Parry) Nesbitt as Kathleen Mary Nesbitt in 1888 of Welsh and Irish descent, she was educated in Lisieux, France, and at the Queen's University of Belfast and the Sorbonne. Her younger brother, Thomas Nesbitt, Jr., acted in one film in 1925, before his death in South Africa in 1927 from an apparent heart attack. She made her debut in London in the stage revival of Arthur Wing Pinero's ''The Cabinet Minister'' (1910). She acted in countless plays after that. In 1911, she joined the Irish Players, went to the United States and debuted on Broadway in ''The Well of the Saints''. She also was in the cast of John Millington Synge's ''The Playboy of the Western World'' with the Irish Players when the whole cast was pelted with fruits and vegetables by the offended Irish American Catholic audience. She became the love of English poet Rupert Brooke in 1912, who wrote love sonnets to her. They were engaged to be married when he died during World War I. Nesbitt returned to the US and appeared on Broadway in ''Quinneys'' (1915) and John Galsworthy's ''Justice'' (1916) as John Barrymore's leading lady in his first dramatic stage role. After five other plays there, she returned to England. For the rest of the decade she performed in London; her roles included the title role in a revival of John Webster's ''The Duchess of Malfi''. Her film debut was in the silent ''A Star Over Night'' (1919). She then performed in ''The Faithful Heart'' (1922). She did not appear in a film again until 1930, when she played the role of Anne Lymes in ''Canaries Sometimes Sing'', which was an early talkie. In 1932, she appeared in ''The Frightened Lady''. She appeared in the 1938 film version of ''Pygmalion'' as "a lady" who attends the Embassy ball. In the opening credits her first name was spelled as "Kathleen", but as "Cathleen" at the end of the film. Nesbitt's first Hollywood film was ''Three Coins in the Fountain'' (1954), in which she played the character role of La Principessa. This was followed that same year by ''Black Widow'', in which she played Lucia Colletti. She was Cary Grant's Grandmother Janou in 1957's ''An Affair to Remember'' and, the following year, was part of the ensemble cast of ''Separate Tables''. She also appeared in ''The Parent Trap'' (1961), and ''Promise Her Anything'' (1965). Other Broadway appearances included Aunt Alicia in the original Anita Loos adaptation of ''Gigi'' (1951), ''Sabrina Fair'' (1953), and ''Anastasia'' (1954). In 1956, she played Mrs. Higgins in ''My Fair Lady'' starring Rex Harrison. Nesbitt reprised the role in 1981, in her 90s, in a Broadway revival, opposite Harrison, who was in his 70s. She played Agatha Morley on the TV series ''The Farmer's Daughter'' from 1963 to 1966, playing the mother of a Congressman (played by William Windom). She guest starred on such shows as ''The United States Steel Hour''; ''Wagon Train''; ''Naked City'', ''Dr. Kildare'' and ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' (as Rachel Gurney's mother, Mabel, Countess of Southwold). In 1969 she played Richard Burton's mother in the film ''Staircase'' and again in ''Villain'' two years later. She played an elderly drug addict in ''French Connection II'' (1975). Her next film was Hitchcock's ''Family Plot'' (1976), in which she played Julia Rainbird. She then appeared as the grandmother in ''Julia'' (1977). Her final film was ''Never Never Land'' (1980) as Edith Forbes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cathleen Nesbitt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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