Rachel Roberts

Rachel Roberts was born on Sep 20, 1927 in UK. Rachel Roberts's big-screen debut came with Valley of Song directed by Gilbert Gunn in 1953. Rachel Roberts is known for Picnic at Hanging Rock directed by Peter Weir, Rachel Roberts stars as Mrs. Appleyard and Vivean Gray as Miss Greta McCraw. Rachel Roberts has got 4 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Rachel Roberts achieved is BAFTA Awards. The upcoming new movie Rachel Roberts plays is The Wall which will be released on Feb 16, 1982.

Beautiful, swift and tough-tongued British character actress Rachel Roberts gained notice for her roles on the English stage, before she hit it largely in films. Born in Wales and married to actor Rex Harrison in 1962, Roberts made her film debut in a key role in J. Lee Thompson's Filles sans joie (1954) a drama film about the life of women in prison. Around the early sixties, it wasn't uncommon to see a British actress in feature films, usually such an actress would remain on the British screen for such time, but Roberts continued going strong, she's hard to forget as the cankerous housewife in Samedi soir, dimanche matin (1960).After her divorce from Rex Harrison in 1971, Roberts continued such supporting roles usually as tough authority women characters or villainous beauties in films including Femmes de médecins (1971), Le crime de l'Orient-Express (1974), Pique-nique à Hanging Rock (1975), Drôle d'embrouille (1978), Terreur sur la ligne (1979) and Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981). Although never far from the screen, she was occasionally seen on television, such as Mrs. Bonnie McClellan in the 1976 series The Tony Randall Show (1976). She probably achieved her greatest success as Richard Harris's love interest in the film Le prix d'un homme (1963) which earned her an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. Rachel Roberts committed suicide in November of 1980 of a "barbiturate overdose" at her home in Studio City, California. Roberts was only 53 years old.