Dorothy Tutin

Tutin began her stage career in 1949 and won the 1960 Best Actress Evening Standard Award for Twelfth Night. Having made her Broadway debut in the 1963 production of The Hollow Crown, she received a Tony Award nomination for her role in the 1968 original Broadway production of Portrait of a Queen. In the 1970s, she won a second Best Actress Evening Standard Award and won the Olivier Award (then the Society of London awards) for Best Actress in a Revival for A Month in the Country and The Double Dealer. Her films included The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), The Beggar's Opera (1953), A Tale of Two Cities (1958), Savage Messiah (1972) and The Shooting Party (1985). An obituary in The Daily Telegraph described her as "one of the most enchanting, accomplished and intelligent leading ladies on the post-war British stage.

Dorothy Tutin studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and St Catherine's School. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is acting, theatre and film. Distinctions recorded are Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress.

• Honorific Prefix — Dame • Name — Dorothy Tutin • Born — 8 April 1930 • Birthplace — London, England • Died — 6 August 2001 • Place of death — Midhurst, West Sussex, England • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1949–1999 • Children — 2

Dorothy Tutin was born in London on 8 April 1930, the daughter of John Tutin and Adie Evelyn Fryers, a Yorkshire couple who married the following year. She was educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley, Surrey and studied for the stage at PARADA and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Tutin was also a talented pianist. In 1963 she married the actor Derek Waring, and they had two children, Nicholas (born 1966) and Amanda, both of whom became actors (mother and daughter appeared together in the 1989 All Creatures Great and Small episode "Mending Fences"). Dorothy Tutin and Derek Waring remained married until her death in 2001 at the age of 71 from leukaemia. Waring died in 2007, also from cancer.

Dorothy Tutin made her first stage appearance at The Boltons on 6 September 1949, playing Princess Margaret of England in William Douglas-Home's play The Thistle and the Rose. She joined the Bristol Old Vic Company in January 1950, appearing as Phebe in As You Like It, Anni in Denis Cannan's Captain Carvallo and Belinda in John Vanbrugh's The Provok'd Wife. She joined the Old Vic company in London for the 1950–51 season, playing Win-the-Fight Littlewit in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, Ann Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Princess Katharine in Henry V. At the Lyric Theatre in September 1951, she played Martina in Christopher Fry's Thor with Angels, followed in January 1952 by Hero in John Gielgud's production of Much Ado About Nothing at the Phoenix Theatre. Subsequent roles included: • Rose Pemberton in The Living Room (Graham Greene), Wyndham's Theatre, April 1953 • Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera (John Van Druten), New Theatre, March 1954 • Joan in The Lark (Jean Anouilh), Lyric Hammersmith, March 1955 • Hedvig in The Wild Duck, Saville Theatre, December 1955 • Caroline Traherne in The Gates of Summer, touring, September 1956 • Jean Rice in The Entertainer, Royal Court, April 1957

Tutin first joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company for the 1958 season in Stratford-upon-Avon, appearing as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Viola in Twelfth Night and Ophelia in Hamlet. With the same company (but renamed the Royal Shakespeare Company from January 1961), she appeared as: • Cressida in Troilus and Cressida, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, July 1960 • Viola in Twelfth Night, Aldwych Theatre, December 1960 (Evening Standard Awards Best Actress) • Sister Jeanne in The Devils, Aldwych, February 1961. • Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Stratford, August 1961 • Desdemona in Othello, Stratford October 1961, Aldwych, October 1962 • Varya in The Cherry Orchard, Aldwych, December 1961 and October 1962 • Polly Peachum in The Beggar's Opera, Aldwych, July 1963 Other work included: • Beatrice in Beatrice et Benedict (concert version) Royal Festival Hall, November 1963 • Queen Victoria in Portrait of a Queen, Bristol Old Vic March 1965; Vaudeville Theatre, May 1965; and Henry Miller NY, February 1968 (Tony nominee) • Rosalind in As You Like It, RSC Stratford and Aldwych, summer 1967, then at the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, January 1968 • Ann in Ann Veronica, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, February 1969 • Francine in Play on Love, St Martin's Theatre, January 1970 • Alice in Arden of Faversham, RSC Theatregoround Festival, Roundhouse, November 1970 • Kate in Old Times, Aldwych, June 1971 • Title role in Peter Pan, London Coliseum, December 1971 and 1972 • Maggie Wylie in What Every Woman Knows, touring, March 1972 and Albery Theatre, November 1974 • Natalya Petrovna in A Month in the Country, Chichester Festival Theatre, 1974 season; and (for Prospect Productions) Albery Theatre, November 1975 (Evening Standard Awards Best Actress) & (Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival) • Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, October 1976 • Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, Edinburgh Festival 1977 and Old Vic November 1977 • Madame Ranevsky in The Cherry Orchard, National Theatre, Olivier, February 1978 • Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, National, Olivier, June 1978 • Lady Plyant in The Double Dealer, National, Olivier, September 1978 (Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival) • Genia Hofreiter in Undiscovered Country, National, Olivier, June 1979 • Madame Dubarry in Reflections, Theatre Royal Haymarket, March 1980 • Hester Collyer in The Deep Blue Sea, Greenwich Theatre September 1981 • Sarah in After the Lions by Ronald Harwood. World premiere directed by Michael Elliott at the Royal Exchange, Manchester 1982 • Deborah in A Kind of Alaska (part of a Pinter Other Places triple-bill), Duchess Theatre, March 1985 • Blanche Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs, Aldwych Theatre, December 1986 • Sonia in Loleh Bellon's Thursday's Ladies, Apollo Theatre, September 1987 • Edna Selby in Harlequinade and Millie Crocker-Harris in The Browning Version, Royalty Theatre, March 1988 • Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music, Minerva Theatre, Chichester, August 1989; Piccadilly Theatre, October 1989 • Elderly Woman in Mountain Language and Melissa in Party Time (Harold Pinter), Almeida Theatre, November 1991 • Rhoda Monkhams in Rodney Ackland's After October, Minerva, Chichester, May 1997, Richmond Theatre and Greenwich Theatre, June 1997, co-starring with Nicholas Waring • Fonsia Dorsey in The Gin Game, Savoy Theatre, March 1999, co-starring with Joss Ackland

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1952 — The Importance of Being Earnest — Cecily Cardew • 1953 — The Beggar's Opera — Polly Peachum • 1958 — A Tale of Two Cities — Lucie Manette • 1970 — Cromwell — Queen Henrietta Maria • 1972 — The Spy's Wife — Hilda Tyler • Savage Messiah — Sophie Brzeska • 1985 — The Shooting Party — Lady Minnie Nettleby • Murder with Mirrors — Mildred Strete • 1994 — Great Moments in Aviation — Gwendolyne Quim • 1996 — Indian Summer — Luna

• Year — Award — Category — Work — Result — Ref • 1953 — BAFTA Film Award — Most Promising Newcomer to Film — The Importance of Being Earnest • 1960 — Evening Standard Award — Best Actress — Twelfth Night • 1960 — Tony Award — Best Actress in a Play — Portrait of a Queen • 1971 — BAFTA TV Award — Best Actress — The Six Wives of Henry VIII / Somerset Maugham Series (Flotsam and Jetsam) • 1973 — BAFTA Film Award — Best Actress — Savage Messiah • 1975 — Evening Standard Award — Best Actress — A Month in the Country • 1975 — BAFTA TV Award — Best Actress — South Riding • 1976 — Olivier Award — Best Actress in a Revival — A Month in the Country • 1978 — Olivier Award — Best Actress in a Revival — The Double Dealer

Tutin was created Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1967 and raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in 2000.