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Rachel Roberts (20 September 192726 November 1980) was a Welsh actress noted for her fervour and passion. Roberts is best remembered for her forthright screen performances as the older mistress of the central male character in two key films of the 1960s, ''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' and ''This Sporting Life''. For ''This Sporting Life'', Roberts was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Lead Actress. In Australia, she is remembered for her performance as Mrs Appleyard in Peter Weir's ''Picnic at Hanging Rock.'' == Early life and career == Roberts was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales. After a Baptist upbringing (against which she rebelled), followed by study at the University of Wales and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she began working with a repertory company in Swansea in 1950.〔''Halliwell's Who's Who on the Movies.'' John Walker (ed); HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. (2003) pg398 ISBN 0-06-053423-0〕 She made her film debut in the Welsh-set comedy ''Valley of Song'' (1953), directed by Gilbert Gunn. Her portrayal of Brenda in Karel Reisz's ''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' (1960) won her a British Academy Film Award.〔''The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales''. John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) p. 769 ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6〕 Lindsay Anderson cast her as the suffering Mrs Hammond in ''This Sporting Life'' (1963), earning another BAFTA and an Oscar nomination. Both films were significant examples of the British New Wave of film-making. In theatre, she performed at the Royal Court and played the title role as the life-enhancing tart in Lionel Bart's musical ''Maggie May'' (1964). In films, she continued to play women with lusty appetites as in Lindsay Anderson's ''O Lucky Man!'' (1973), although the haunting Australian-made ''Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (1975), directed by Peter Weir, provided her with a different kind of role, as the authoritarian head teacher of a Victorian girls' school. After relocating to Los Angeles in the early 1970s, she appeared in supporting roles in several American films such as ''Foul Play'' (1978). Her final British film was ''Yanks'' (1979), directed by John Schlesinger, for which she received a Supporting Actress BAFTA.〔 In 1979, Roberts co-starred with Jill Bennett in the London Weekend Television production of Alan Bennett's ''The Old Crowd'', directed by Lindsay Anderson and Stephen Frears. 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「Rachel Roberts (actress)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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