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Early life and career

Born in Stanmore, London to Jewish parents, she was educated at the North London Collegiate School and Newnham College, Cambridge. Stanmore is a place in the London Borough of Harrow, in London, England. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... North London Collegiate School is a selective independent day school for girls from the ages of 4 to 18. ... Full name Newnham College Motto - Named after Its location in the village of Newnham Previous names Newnham Hall Established 1871 Sister College(s) Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Principal Dame Patricia Hodgson Location Sidgwick Avenue Undergraduates 396 Postgraduates 120 Homepage N/A A view of the Clough and Kennedy buildings of...

Bron began her career in the Cambridge Footlights revue of 1959, entitled The Last Laugh, in which Peter Cook also appeared. The addition of a female performer to the Footlights was a significant departure, having been until that point an all-male bastion, with female characters portrayed in drag. As with so many other members of the British satire boom, participation in the Footlights was a springboard to a long career in British comedy. In the ensuing years she would write and perform in dozens of productions for television and radio, her earliest work including such programmes as Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, and My Father Knew Lloyd George. Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, run by the students of Cambridge University. ... Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English satirist, writer and comedian. ... Not So Much A Programme, More A Way of Life was a BBC satire programme which aired during the winter of 1964-1965, produced by Ned Sherrin, in an attempt to continue and improve on the successful formula of his That Was The Week That Was, which had been taken... My Father Knew Lloyd George was a one off BBC satire written by John Bird with additional material by the cast, and directed by Jack Gold. ...

She collaborated with novelist and playwright Michael Frayn on the BBC programmes Beyond a Joke and Making Faces. Michael Frayn (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. ... Beyond a Joke was the sixth episode to air in the seventh series of Red Dwarf. ...

Film appearances

Her notable film appearances include a role in the Beatles film, Help!, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's film Bedazzled, and The National Health. She appears in the film Two for the Road alongside Albert Finney, Audrey Hepburn and William Daniels. More recently she has appeared in the film adaptations of A Little Princess, The House of Mirth, and Wimbeldon. The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ... Help! is the title of a 1965 film starring the Beatles and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal and Roy Kinnear. ... Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English satirist, writer and comedian. ... Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (April 19, 1935 – March 27, 2002), was an Academy-Award nominated British comedian, actor and musician. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The National Health is a play by Peter Nichols. ... Two for the Road is a 1967 movie directed by Stanley Donen about the twelve-year relationship between an architect (Albert Finney) and his wife (Audrey Hepburn). ... Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936 in Salford, Lancashire, England) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated English actor of Irish descent. ... Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award-winning actress of film and theatre, Broadway stage performer, ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. ... William Daniels (born March 31, 1927) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor whose distinctive, nasal voice and penchant for portraying critical yet competent characters has landed him a number of roles over the years. ... A Little Princess is a childrens novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also known for Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden. ... The House of Mirth is a 1905 novel by Edith Wharton. ...

Television career

Eleanor Bron on Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy in 2006

She plays the recurring character of Patsy's mother in the sitcom, Absolutely Fabulous, an exuberantly horrible woman who "scattered bastard babies across Europe like a garden sprinkler". She also appeared as an art critic in a parody of an Andy Warhol documentary on the BBC sketch comedy show French and Saunders, written by and starring Jennifer Saunders of Absolutely Fabulous and Dawn French of The Vicar of Dibley. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Dawn Frenchs Girls Who Do: Comedy was an interview series shown on BBC Four. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Absolutely Fabulous was a British sitcom written by and starring Jennifer Saunders, and co-starring Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha. ... Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist associated with the definition of Pop Art. ... French & Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show starring and written by comedy team Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, and is also the name by which they are known on the rare occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act. ... Jennifer Saunders Jennifer Jane Saunders (born July 6, 1958 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire) is an English comedian, actress, and comedy writer. ... Absolutely Fabulous was a British sitcom written by and starring Jennifer Saunders, and co-starring Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha. ... Dawn French (born 11 October 1957) is a British comedian and actress best known for being part of a comic duo with her comic partner Jennifer Saunders and for playing the lead role in The Vicar of Dibley as Geraldine Granger. ... The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom created by Richard Curtis and written for its lead actress, Dawn French, by Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, with contributions from Kit Hesketh-Harvey. ...

She appeared in one episode ("Equal Opportunities") of the BBC series Yes Minister, playing a senior civil servant in Jim Hacker's Department. Hacker plans to promote her to strike a blow for equal opportunities. Yes Minister is a satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC television and radio between 1980 and 1984. ...

Eleanor Bron as Kara in Revelation of the Daleks.

Bron appeared in a brief scene in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who serial City of Death alongside John Cleese as art critics in an art gallery in Paris. The pair are admiring the TARDIS, thinking it to be a piece of art, when the Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) rush into it and it dematerialises. Bron's character, believing it to be part of the work, states that it is "Exquisite, absolutely exquisite!" Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Revelation of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in two weekly parts from March 23 to March 30, 1985. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme (and 1996 television movie) produced by the BBC about the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, solving problems and righting wrongs. ... City of Death is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from September 29 to October 20, 1979. ... John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English comedian and actor best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python, and for co-writing the sitcom Fawlty Towers in which he played Basil Fawlty. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... The Third Doctor emerging from the TARDIS in the 1970 serial Spearhead from Space. ... For other persons named Tom Baker, see Tom Baker (disambiguation). ... Romana, short for Romanadvoratrelundar, is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Lalla Ward (born Sarah Ward, June 28, 1951) is an English actress and illustrator best known for playing the part of Romana in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Later, she had a more substantial guest role in another Doctor Who television serial, 1985's Revelation of the Daleks. She has more recently also appeared in an audio drama based on Doctor Who by Big Finish Productions, (Loups-Garoux), in which she plays the part of wealthy heiress Ileana de Santos. Revelation of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in two weekly parts from March 23 to March 30, 1985. ... Radio drama is a form of audio storytelling broadcast on radio. ... Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ... Loups-Garoux (French for werewolves) is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Recent work

Her comic talent is demonstrated in the Amnesty International Secret Policeman's Balls live benefit shows, working alongside Peter Cook and Rowan Atkinson. During one sketch, she has a cosy chat with God about reflecting on her sins without committing the sins of vanity and self-obsession, ending with, "Well, of course, Thou knowest what I mean." Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) comprising a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.[1] Founded in the UK in 1961, AI compares actual practices of human rights with internationally accepted standards and demands compliance where these... The Secret Policemans Ball — The Complete Edition (2004 DVD box set - cover) The Secret Policemans Balls is the collective name informally used to describe a long-running series of benefit shows staged in England to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International. ... Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English satirist, writer and comedian. ... Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born 6 January 1955) is an English comedian, actor and writer best known for playing Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder and for playing the title role in the British television comedy Mr. ... The Narcissus myth, as portrayed by Waterhouse, is a reflection on the nature of intimacy and vanity. ...

In 2001 and 2002 she has appeared in the BBC radio comedy sketch show, The Right Time, along with Graeme Garden, Paula Wilcox, Clive Swift, Roger Blake and Neil Innes. Another notable radio appearance was in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in the 2002 episode "The Madness of Colonel Warburton". The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion... BOSSON - The Right Time 01. ... Graeme Garden, as a Beefeater in The Goodies (TV series) episode The Tower of London David Graeme Garden (born February 18, 1943) is a British comedy writer and performer. ... Wilcox with her Man About The House co-star Richard OSullivan Paula Wilcox (born 13 December 1949 in Manchester) is an English actress. ... Clive Swift as his character, Richard Bucket, in Keeping Up Appearances. ... Neil Innes (born Neil James Innes, 9 December 1944, in Danbury, Essex) is an English writer and performer of comic songs, best known for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles. ... The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a series of radio dramas based on Arthur Conan Doyles detective Sherlock Holmes. ...

She is often credited as an inspiration for the name of the Beatles song "Eleanor Rigby". She's also mentioned in the Yo La Tengo song "Tom Courtenay". ("Dreaming 'bout Eleanor Bron, in my room with the curtains drawn...") Eleanor Rigby is a song by the Beatles, originally released on the 1966 album Revolver. ... Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band, based in Hoboken, New Jersey. ...

She is the author of several books, including Life and Other Punctures, an account of bicycling in France and Holland; and The Pillow Book of Eleanor Bron. In 2006 she narrated the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of the Craig Brown book 1966 and All That. BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Craig Brown (born May 23, 1957) is a British satirist and writer probably best known for his work in Private Eye. ... 1966 and All That (ISBN 0340897112) is a 2005 book by British satirist Craig Brown which was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 2006. ...

Until his death in 2003, she was married to architect Cedric Price; they had no children. Her brother is veteran record producer Gerry Bron. ^[1] This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Cedric Price was an architect (1934_2003). ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Gerry Bron is a British record producer. ...

Stage Appearances

1975: Appeared in the West End musical The Card.
2005: Appeared in the Liverpool Empire Theatre in the musical Twopence To Cross The Mersey // West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the... The Card is a musical with a book by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall and music and lyrics by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent. ... Liverpool Empire Theatre is located on Lime Street in Liverpool, England. ...

References

External links

• Eleanor Bron at the Internet Movie Database
• Eleanor Bron at The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy