Eileen Heckart

Daigle in The Bad Seed. She was knighted and became a Dame. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1972 movie, Butterflies are Free and was nominated in 1956 for her performance as the bereaved, besotted Mrs. She was married to Peter Fleming an explorer and writer and brother of Ian Fleming. Eileen Heckart (March 29, 1919 - December 31, 2001) was an American actress. She generally played a genteel and/or repressed Englishwoman, though she proved in many stage productions to be a talented comedienne. Other films include The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).

She made relatively few films, of which Brief Encounter is by far the best known. By 1931, she was starring as Ophelia in a New York production of Hamlet. Her stage début was in Major Barbara in 1928. She was born in Richmond, Surrey, and trained in acting at RADA.

Dame Celia Johnson (1908-1982) was an English actress, famous for her role in the 1945 film, Brief Encounter, opposite Trevor Howard.