Wendy Hiller
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| Known for: |
A Man for All Seasons, The Elephant Man, Pygmalion |
| Birth name: |
Wendy Margaret Hiller |
| Birthday: |
15 August 1912,
Bramhall, Cheshire, England, UK |
Trivia

Made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 1971

Made an Dame of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) 1975

Awarded an honourary LLD by Manchester University 1984

Wendy had one daughter and one son by her marriage to Ronald Gow.

She was personally chosen by
George Bernard Shaw to play the lead roles in 1930s productions of his plays 'Saint Joan' and 'Pygmalion' (she was reputedly his favourite actress of the time).

Was nominated for Broadway's 1958 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "A Moon for the Misbegotten."

In 1967, she accepted the Oscar for "Best Actor in a Leading Role" on behalf of
Paul Scofield (her co-star in
A Man for All Seasons), who wasn't present at the awards ceremony

The second choice for Princess Dragonmiroff in
Murder on the Orient Express. Sidney Lumet's first choice was vetoed by the producers.

She played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (1938) opposite Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins. Rex Harrison, also in Major Barbara (1941), played Professor Henry Higgins in the Lerner and Loewe musical "My Fair Lady" on Broadway in New York, in the West End in London (both opposite Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle) and in the My Fair Lady (1964) movie opposite Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle.
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