Biography
Anna Massey
Acting
Anna Raymond Massey was an English actress. She won a BAFTA Best Actress Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel Hotel du Lac, a role that one of her co-stars, Julia McKenzie, has said "could have been written for her". Massey is also well known for her roles in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) and Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972), each as a woman who becomes involved with a suspected killer. She performed over one hundred chara…
Career works
152
Movies
88
Series
64
Career average
6.6/10
Birth date
08/11/1937
Place of birth
Thakeham, West Sussex, England, UK
Date of death
07/03/2011
Filmography highlights
Movies
Affinity
2008 · 5.8
The Oxford Murders
2008 · 6.0
The Gigolos
2006 · 5.0
Pinochet in Suburbia
2006 · 5.3
A Good Murder
2006 · 7.5
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
2005 · 6.8
The Machinist
2004 · 7.5
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2004 · 8.0
Belonging
2004 · 5.9
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003 · 10.0
Possession
2002 · 6.0
An Angel for May
2002 · 6.3
The Importance of Being Earnest
2002 · 6.8
Room to Rent
2001 · 6.0
Dark Blue World
2001 · 6.9
Series
Moving On
2009 · 7.3
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2008 · 7.5
Oliver Twist
2007 · 6.6
Kingdom
2007 · 7.1
Lewis
2007 · 7.6
A Good Murder
2006 · 5.5
The Robinsons
2005 · 6.4
He Knew He Was Right
2004 · 7.6
The Worst Week of My Life
2004 · 8.2
Strange
2003 · 7.8
The Sleeper
2000
A Respectable Trade
1998 · 7.0
Animated World Faiths
1998 · 10.0
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Arthouse
1997
Ruby
1997 · 9.0