Billie Whitelaw

Birthday: 6 June 1932, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK

Birth Name: Billie Honor Whitelaw

Height: 157 cm

Billie Whitelaw first appeared on the radio aged 11. She made her theatrical debut in 1950 and in films from 1953. She has made a speciality of playing intense, single-purposed women. Also, (on stage), she has appeared in many of the stranger plays by Samuel Beckett.

[on Samuel Beckett] Like many men the older he got the more attractive he became -- at least as seen...Show more »

[on Samuel Beckett] Like many men the older he got the more attractive he became -- at least as seen through a woman's eyes. Show less «

About how she found her cottage in Suffolk: "I ended up at an estate agent's in Sudbury and the chap...Show more »

About how she found her cottage in Suffolk: "I ended up at an estate agent's in Sudbury and the chap, knowing I was an actress and imagining that I had Elizabeth Taylor finances, brought out details of all these places that Paul Getty would have been happy with. I said to him: 'Now, listen. Most of my parts are played at the Royal Court or the RSC and I barely make enough to pay my parking tickets. What I'm after is something totally run down, something that no one else would touch.' - He said: 'Get in the car.' And he drove me here." Show less «

I could have easily have become a nun, or a prostitute, or both.

Billie Whitelaw

Billie Whitelaw's FILMOGRAPHY

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