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Cathryn Harrison
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Cathryn Mary Lee Harrison (25 May 1959 – October 2018) was an English actress. Cathryn was baptised on 27 September 1959 at St.John's Church,Hampstead,London,England. She is the…
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Cathryn Mary Lee Harrison (25 May 1959 – October 2018) was an English actress. Cathryn was baptised on 27 September 1959 at St.John's Church,Hampstead,London,England. She is the daughter of the actor and singer Noel Harrison and Sara Lee Eberts and also the grand daughter of legendary actor Sir Rex Harrison.Her brother Simon Harrison is also an actor as well as her sister Harriet Harrison. She has a brother Will and a sister Chloe from her father's second marriage, and an older sister Zoe from her mother's first marriage to Carleton John Richard Tufnell. In May 1996 she married Paul Laing the son of Ronald David Laing and uses that name since then. Her most notable performances include Lily in Black Moon as well as many made-for-television movies including Portrait of a Marriage where she plays Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville West's lesbian lover. She began her career in Robert Altman's Images and after two decades of low roles, started a career in British television and radio dramas. She appeared in Love on a Branch Line and an 1977 Australian film called Blue Fire Lady. She also appeared as Major Tom Cadman's wife in the ITV series Soldier Soldier, and played wardrobe assistant Irenie in the film version of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser. She died in 2018.
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1997
Original Sin
TV show Claudia Etienne
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1994
Wycliffe
TV show Jane Hardy
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1994
Love on a Branch Line
TV show Chloe Flamborough
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1991
Clarissa
TV show
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1991
Soldier Soldier
TV show Laura Cadman
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1990
Portrait of a Marriage
TV show Violet Keppel
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1990
Chillers
TV show Mary
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1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV show Cecily, Lady Horbury
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1988
A Handful of Dust
Movie Milly
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1988
Hannay
TV show
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1987
Eat the Rich
Movie Joanna
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1987
The Happy Valley
Movie Helen Tapsell
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1987
Empire State
Movie Marion
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1986
Duet for One
Movie Penny Smallwood
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1984
A Christmas Carol
Movie Kate
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1984
Robin of Sherwood
TV show Isadora
More credits
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1983
The Dresser
Movie Irene
- 1982
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1981
Bergerac
TV show Julie Manton
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1981
The Telephone
Movie
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1978
Wuthering Heights
TV show Catherine Linton
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1978
Return of the Saint
TV show Sally
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1978
Liza
Movie Liza
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1977
Blue Fire Lady
Movie Jenny
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1977
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV show Liza
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1977
Romance
TV show Vera Herbert
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1976
The Witches of Pendle
Movie Alizon Device
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1975
Black Moon
Movie Lily
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1972
The Pied Piper
Movie Lisa
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1972
Images
Movie Susannah
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1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV show Angela
