Coral Browne (1913-1991) was an Australian actress who left for England in 1934. She met her husband, Vincent Price, on the set of the 1973 film Theatre of Blood. Coral Browne became a theatre and film star in England and the United States of America. She played Lady Macbeth, Goneril in King Lear and Queen Gertrude in Hamlet at the Old Vic Company in 1956. In 1958 she went to Moscow with the Shakespeare Memorial Company where she met the English spy Guy Burgess. Her recollections of this meeting became the subject of a television drama, An Englishman Abroad (1983). She won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award (BAFTA) for her role in this production. The Performing Arts Museum, Melbourne, holds the Coral Browne Collection.
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