Francesca Annis

Her films have included Dune (1984). Seglitz, Germany named a city park after her. She continued to be a leading television actress throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, appearing in series such as Edward the Seventh (as Lillie Langtry, a role she reprised in Lillie (1978)), Madame Bovary and Parnell and the Englishwoman, in which she played Kitty O'Shea. She returned to Germany in 1954, where she acted in movies and on the stage. Her performance as Lady Macbeth in Roman Polanski's controversial 1971 film of Macbeth gained her notoriety. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Escape Me Never in 1935. While becoming an increasingly well known face on screen, she enjoyed a successful stage career, playing many leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her Catherine the Great was banned in Germany because of her Jewishness.

She also presented children's television programmes. With the rise of Naziism, Bergner and her husband, Paul Skinner, both Jews, moved to London. In 1967 she played Estella in a television adaptation of Great Expectations. In 1923 she made her film debut in Der Evangelimann. Francesca Annis began acting professionally in her teens, and made her film debut in the 1950s. She eventually moved to Munich and then Berlin. Francesca Annis (born May 14, 1944) is an English actress, particularly well known for her film and television appearances, most recently the BBC Television series Wives and Daughters and Deceit. In Vienna, she worked as an artist's model, posing for sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck, who fell in love with her.

Born Elisabeth Ettel in Drohobycz, Austria-Hungary (now Drogobych, Ukraine), she began acting in Innsbruck at the age of 15. Elisabeth Bergner (August 22, 1897 - May 12, 1986) was an Austrian actress.