Mona Washbourne

Known for ActingBorn 1903-11-27Died 1988-11-15Solihull, Warwickshire, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mona Lee Washbourne (27 November 1903 – 15 November 1988) was an English actress of stage, film, and television. Her most critically acclaimed role was in the film Stevie (1978), late in her career, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award. Mona Washbourne was born in Solihull, Warwickshire and began her entertaining career training as a concert pianist. In 1948, after several years acting professionally on stage, and numerous stage musical performances, she began appearing in films. Her film credits include the horror movie The Brides of Dracula (1960), Billy Liar (1963), and The Collector (1965). She is probably best known to American audiences for her role as housekeeper Mrs. Pearce in My Fair Lady (1964). She also appeared as the stern and caustic Mrs. Bramson in the remake of Night Must Fall (also 1964), and the matron in the film If.... (1968). She appeared at both the Royal Court Theatre in London and on Broadway in 1970 in David Storey's Home. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. In 1975 she appeared on the West End stage with James Stewart in a revival of Mary Chase's play Harvey, in the role originally taken by Josephine Hull. Washbourne won the 1981 New York Film Critics' Circle Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Stevie (1978). In 1981 Washbourne appeared in Granada Television's TV miniseries adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited as Nanny Hawkins. One of her last television appearances was in Where's the Key? (1983), a BBC play about Alzheimer's disease. Mona Washbourne was married to actor Basil Dignam (1905-1979), whom she wed in 1940. She died in 1988, aged 84, in London.Read more

Movies & web series

Six Days of Justice

Dark Interval

Circus Friends

Johnny on the Run

Brideshead Revisited

The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

The London Connection

Home

The Wonderful World of Disney

My Fair Lady

The Games

Shillingbury Tales

Stevie

The Collector

Centre Play

if....

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Number Ten

ITV Playhouse

A Cry from the Streets

Son of a Stranger

The Good Companions

O Lucky Man!

The Million Pound Note

Adventure in the Hopfields

Adam and Evelyne

The Winslow Boy

Yield to the Night

Billy Liar

Stranger in Town

Lost

It's Great to be Young!

The Brides of Dracula

Play for Today

Once Upon a Dream

No Love for Johnnie

Night Must Fall

Identikit

Doctor in the House

Maytime in Mayfair

Cast a Dark Shadow

Ferry Cross the Mersey

Double Confession

One Way Pendulum

Fragment of Fear

Operation Stogie

The Bed Sitting Room

Loser Takes All