Mona Washbourne
Acting
Born 1903-11-27
Died 1988-11-15
Solihull, Warwickshire, England, UK
75 credits
Awards
Nominated for 1 Tony Award
Tony Awards 1 nominated
- 1971 Best Featured Actress in a Play Nominated
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Mona Lee Washbourne (27 November 1903 – 15 November 1988) was an English actress of stage, film, and television. Her most critically acclaimed role was in the film Stevie (1978), late in her career, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award.
Mona Washbourne was born in Solihull, Warwickshire and began her entertaining career training as a concert pianist.
In 1948, after several years acting professionally on stage, and numerous stage musical performances, she began appearing in films. Her film credits include the horror movie The Brides of Dracula (1960), Billy Liar (1963), and The Collector (1965). She is probably best known to American audiences for her role as housekeeper Mrs. Pearce in My Fair Lady (1964). She also appeared as the stern and caustic Mrs. Bramson in the remake of Night Must Fall (also 1964), and the matron in the film If.... (1968).
She appeared at both the Royal Court Theatre in London and on Broadway in 1970 in David Storey's Home. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. In 1975 she appeared on the West End stage with James Stewart in a revival of Mary Chase's play Harvey, in the role originally taken by Josephine Hull. Washbourne won the 1981 New York Film Critics' Circle Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Stevie (1978).
In 1981 Washbourne appeared in Granada Television's TV miniseries adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited as Nanny Hawkins. One of her last television appearances was in Where's the Key? (1983), a BBC play about Alzheimer's disease.
Mona Washbourne was married to actor Basil Dignam (1905-1979), whom she wed in 1940.
She died in 1988, aged 84, in London.
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Filmography
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Acting
58 credits
ITV Playhouse
Thirty-Minute Theatre
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
My Fair Lady
Casino Royale
Brideshead Revisited
Centre Play
The Million Pound Note
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Collector
Wicked Women
if....
Shillingbury Tales
The Brides of Dracula
Six Days of Justice
O Lucky Man!
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
Identikit
Betrayed
The Blue Bird
Knight Errant Limited
Celebrity Playhouse
Billy Liar
Therese Raquin
The Bed Sitting Room
The Winslow Boy
Yield to the Night
Armchair Theatre
Probation Officer
Pygmalion
Adam and Evelyne
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Doctor in the House
The Old Curiosity Shop
Loser Takes All
No Love for Johnnie
Fragment of Fear
Lost
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
The Good Companions
Count Your Blessings
The London Connection
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
The Games
The Gambler and the Lady
Cast a Dark Shadow
Home
Monsieur Ripois
One Way Pendulum
A Cry from the Streets
Maytime in Mayfair
Night Must Fall
Adventure in the Hopfields
To Dorothy, a Son
The Third Day
John and Julie
Johnny on the Run
Stranger in Town
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