Donna Reed

The performing arts center was formerly an opera house built in 1914, and later rennovated into the Ritz Movie Theater where Donna Reed first fell in love with movies. On June 26 police announced that the death was being treated as accidental and no further action would be taken. The non-profit organization grants scholarships for performing arts students, runs an annual festival of performing arts workshops, and operates The Donna Reed Center for the Performing Arts. Her boyfriend Calil, aged 30, who played her character's drug-dealing boyfriend Sean Hunt in Holby City, was arrested for questioning, before being released on bail. The Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts was organized after her death in 1986. She died at Charing Cross Hospital on June 19, after a decision by her family the previous day to have her life support system turned off. She died at age 64 in Beverly Hills, California from pancreatic cancer and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. She suffered severe head injuries, and never regained consciousness.

She sued the show's production company and received an undisclosed seven-figure settlement. The building was the home of her boyfriend, fellow Holby City actor George Calil. When Bel Geddes was well enough to return to the role, Reed was fired. In the early hours of June 15, 2003, she fell 40 feet (12 metres) from the rear window of a block of flats in Holland Park, an area of west London, apparently having previously taken alcohol and cocaine. In her later years she temporarily replaced Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie in the television series Dallas in the 1984-1985 season. She joined the cast of Holby City, a spin-off series from the long-running BBC medical drama series Casualty, in the show's third series. She won an Academy Award for playing a prostitute in From Here to Eternity. Before joining the cast of Holby City, her best-known role had been as the character Judi Jeffreys in the children's television series Grange Hill from 1997 to 1999.

Born Donna Belle Mullenger, Reed is probably best remembered for her roles as the wholesome housewife Donna Stone on American television's The Donna Reed Show and as Mary Bailey in Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. She was born in Ascot in the county of Berkshire, and took up television acting as a young girl. Donna Reed (January 27, 1921 - January 14, 1986) was an American actress. Laura Sadler (December 25, 1980 - June 19, 2003) was a British actress best known for her role as nurse Sandy Harper in the BBC ONE hospital drama series Holby City.