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Known for:	Murder at the Gallop, Agatha Christie's 'Murder, She Said', Murder Most Foul
Birth name:	Margaret Rutherford
Birthday:	11 May 1892, Balham, London, England, UK

Agatha Christie dedicated her 1963 novel "The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side" to Rutherford in admiration. Awarded OBE in 1961. She started work on The Virgin and the Gypsy, but illness caused her to be replaced by Fay Compton. Her husband, Stringer Davis, portrayed "Mr. Stringer" in all of her "Miss Marple" films and appeared with her in other films as well. Appointed a DBE in 1967. Her cousin is the well-known British politician, Tony Benn. Though the daughter of William Benn and Florence Rutherford, her father murdered her grandfather just before she was born, and, as a result of this tragedy, she was christened with her mother's last name. Her mother died when she was three years old and she was brought up by a couple of aunts. She developed an interest in the theatre while at school, her guardian aunt paid for her to have private acting lessons. In 1925 (age 33), she was accepted as a student at the Old Vic Theatre where she appeared in several small Shakespearean roles in productions starring Dame Edith Evans, including "The Merchant of Venice", "Measure for Measure" and "The Taming of the Shrew". The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art named an award after her.

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