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Gay Hamilton | |
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| Born | 29 April 1943 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1963–present |
Gay Hamilton (born 29 April 1943) is a British actress, most notable for her roles in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and Ridley Scott's The Duellists . [1]
Hamilton was born in Uddingston. [1] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she played the love interest and later wife of Detective Chief Superintendent John Watt (played by Frank Windsor) in the TV series Softly, Softly and its Taskforce spin-off.
She appeared in two episodes of the ITC series Man in a Suitcase (1967), played student teacher Ann Collins in the "Please Sir" episode "Student Princess" (1968), and Eva Zoref, the wife of Anton Zoref (Ian McShane), in the Space: 1999 episode "Force of Life" (1975). In 1980 she played the part of Dr. Claire Wilson in the Shoestring episode "The Farmer had a Wife". She more recently played Edwina Dunn in EastEnders and Maisie McLintock in Doctors .
George Stevens Hamilton is an American film and television actor. His notable films include Home from the Hill (1960), By Love Possessed (1961), Light in the Piazza (1962), Your Cheatin' Heart (1964), Once Is Not Enough (1975), Love at First Bite (1979), Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981), The Godfather Part III (1990), Doc Hollywood (1991), 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997), Hollywood Ending (2002) and The Congressman (2016). For his debut performance in Crime and Punishment U.S.A. (1959), Hamilton won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for a BAFTA Award. He has received one additional BAFTA nomination and two additional Golden Globe nominations.
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