Fiona Gaunt

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Fiona Gaunt
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Fiona Elizabeth Keet-Gaunt

(1947-05-25) 25 May 1947 (age 76)
Beirut, Lebanon

Fiona Elizabeth Keet-Gaunt (born 25 May 1947) is an English actress and the mother of actress Genevieve Gaunt.

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Personal life

According to a 1972 newspaper profile, Gaunt was born in Beirut to Scottish Presbyterian parents and lived in Uganda until she was 16. [1] In 1985 she met the Dutch actor Frederik de Groot. Their daughter, Genevieve, was born in January 1991. [2]

Career

Fiona Gaunt trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 1969. [3] She subsequently played opposite Anthony Hopkins - as Hélène Kuragina, wife of Pierre Bezukhov - in the BBC's 1972 production of War and Peace . [4] She then starred as psychiatrist Helen Smith in the 1973 science fiction series Moonbase 3 . [5] [6] To prepare for her role, Gaunt studied tapes of the Apollo missions. [7]

Gaunt appeared in a 1973 episode of the comedy series Sykes , playing an upper-class girl who tricks Eric Sykes' character into getting engaged. She had a handful of roles in The Two Ronnies , including as a stowaway in their spoof of The Onedin Line, and starred as Grace Lovell in the 1978 TV adaptation of A Horseman Riding By . [8] She was also in the first production of Tom Stoppard's 1979 play, Undiscovered Country . [9]

Filmography

YearFormatTitleRole
1978TV seriesA Horseman Riding ByGrace Lovell. [8]
1973TV series Moonbase 3 Dr. Helen Smith. [5]
1973TV series The Two Ronnies. [10] Various roles.
1973TV series Sykes: An Engagement. [11]
1973TV series Justice: Malicious DamageDiana Blumenthal
1972TV series War and Peace. [12] Hélène Kuragina. [13]
1971MiniseriesCousin BetteLeonie. [14]
1970Anthology Series Tales of Unease Girl

Selected stage credits

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Citations

  1. ↑ Gavin Weightman, 'TV star who wins their hearts', Nottingham Evening Post, 1 December 1972, p. 11.
  2. ↑ "Genevieve Gaunt on her 'Amanda Knox' role... and how Cambridge acting helped her get a double first". Evening Standard. 29 August 2014.
  3. ↑ 'The Ortolan', The Stage, 27 March 1969, p. 15.
  4. ↑ "Saturday Television". The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois). 15 October 1977. Retrieved 25 May 2016– via Newspapers.com.
  5. 1 2 Butler, Andrew M. (2012). Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s. Liverpool University Press. p. 41. ISBN   9781781387986.
  6. ↑ Rolinson 2010, p. 79.
  7. ↑ Rolinson 2010, p. 88.
  8. 1 2 Terrace, Vincent (1985). Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials. Vol. 2. New York Zoetrope. p. 197. ISBN   0918432618.
  9. 1 2 Stoppard, Tom (2000). Plays 4: Dalliance, Undiscovered Country, Rough Crossing, The Seagull. Faber Contemporary Classics. ISBN   9780571197507.
  10. ↑ "The Two Ronnies". BBC. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  11. ↑ "Listings". Genome. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  12. ↑ "TV Movie Tips". Independent Press-Telegram. 25 November 1973. Retrieved 25 May 2016– via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Educational TV". Kingsport News. 5 January 1974. Retrieved 25 May 2016– via Newspaper Archive.
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  15. ↑ 'Chit Chat', The Stage, 18 December 1969, p. 8.
  16. ↑ 'Chit Chat', The Stage, 3 September 1970, p. 10.
  17. ↑ 'Gate: The Bedbug', The Stage, 14 February 1980, p. 24.

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