Jenny Laird

About Jenny Laird

Who is it?: Actress, Writer
Birth Day: February 13, 1912
Birth Place:  Chorlton, Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Died On: 31 October 2001 (aged 89)\nLondon, England
Birth Sign: Pisces
Years active: 1935–1991

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Jenny Laird was born on February 13, 1912 in  Chorlton, Manchester, England, United Kingdom, is Actress, Writer. Jenny Laird was born on February 13, 1912 in Chorlton, Manchester, England as Phyllis Edith Mary Blythe. She was an actress and writer, known for Black Narcissus (1947), Doctor Who (1963) and The Forsyte Saga (1967). She was married to John Fernald. She died on October 31, 2001 in Camden, London, England.
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Biography/Timeline

1940

She worked with Director Alec Clunes at the Arts Theatre Club during its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s. What the actor-manager sought for the little underground playhouse in London's Great Newport Street was an audience "eager for intelligent and entertaining plays". Laird's acting went from strength to strength in Farquhar, Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw and other modern plays.

1943

While at the Arts Theatre, she periodically returned to "commercial" theatre, playing Rose in The Recruiting Officer (1943) and Nora in A Doll's House (1945). As Ellie, in the revival by Californian John Fernald of Shaw's Heartbreak House (1950), she revealed, one critic wrote, "an enchanting combination of youth and firmness. Her broken heart never ceased to glint through her mask of ice". Her shapely legs and green eyes figured prominently in West End plays by Ivor Novello, N. C. Hunter and Robert Morley.

1977

With her husband Laird, she co-wrote the West End comedy And No Birds Sing, adapted several plays from the French, and in 1977 wrote Mixed Economy, which played at the King's Head Theatre in Islington, starring Margaret Rawlings and Laird's daughter Karen Fernald.