Hermione Baddeley Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley, known as Hermione Baddeley, (13 November 1906 – 19 August 1986) was an English character actress of theatre, film and television. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Room at the Top (1959) and a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore in 1963. She typically played brash, vulgar characters, often referred to as "brassy" or "blowzy".
August 19, 1986, Los Angeles, California, United States
Place Of Birth
Broseley, Shropshire, England, UK
Height
5' 3" (1.6 m)
Profession
Actress, Soundtrack
Spouse
Major J.H. Willis (m. 1940–1968), David Pax Tennant (m. 1928–1937)
Children
David Tennant, Pauline Tennant
Siblings
Angela Baddeley
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Trademark
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Her thick Cockney accent - droping h's
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Quote
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[on Laurence Harvey] I think I shall risk the halibut. It can't be too awful, can it? After you've lived with Laurence Harvey, nothing in life is ever really too awful again.
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[on her real-life romance with Laurence Harvey] Life with him was exciting and funny, but he was consumed with a hunger to have everything--fame, fortune, all the riches of life. It was as if he knew there was only so much time alloted to him.
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I have spent most of my life working in the theatre - which is always my greatest love, but the films and television were the providers of the little luxuries of life.
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Fact
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Father: W.H. Clinton-Baddeley; Mother: Louise Bourdin.
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Interred with her first husband Hon. David Pax Tennant at St Michael's Churchyard in Wilsford (Salisbury), Wiltshire.
The youngest of four sisters, she appeared on stage from the age of sixteen, acting and dancing in comedies and Noel Coward revues.
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Can be seen playing Doll Tearsheet with her sister Angela Baddeley as Mistress Quickly in Henry IV (episode 3) in the DVD box "An Age of Kings - the History Plays of William Shakespeare".
Second husband, Major J.H. Willis, was Commander of the U.S.S. Henrico from November 1943 to May 1945. He was decorated at one point with the award of Military Cross.
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Her first U.S. appearance came on Broadway when she replaced Angela Lansbury in "A Taste of Honey".
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Mother of actress/poet Pauline Tennant and David Edward Wyndham Tennant.
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Had a long, involved relationship with actor Laurence Harvey. They appeared together in the film Room at the Top (1959) and she received an Oscar nomination as "Best Supporting Actress" nomination for her portrayal of Simone Signoret's best friend, music teacher Elspeth. With under three minutes of screen time, her role had the shortest amount of screen time ever to be nominated.
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Hermione's first husband was the Honourable David Pax Tennant, a descendant of William the Conqueror.
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Best known in the States for her bawdy housekeeper Mrs. Naugatuck on the feminist comedy Maude (1972).
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Was descended from British revolutionary war general Sir Henry Clinton.
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Was nominated for Broadway's 1963 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore."
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George Bernard Shaw reportedly so enjoyed her performance in his play, "Heartbreak House", that he suggested she change her surname from Baddeley to Goodeley.
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Autobiography 1984 "The Unsinkable Hermione Baddeley"
$14 Million
