Anna Lee

Anna Lee was born on Jan 02, 1913 in UK. Anna Lee's big-screen debut came with His Lordship directed by Michael Powell in 1932. Anna Lee is known for Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years directed by Daniel Petrie, Jane Alexander stars as Eleanor Roosevelt and Edward Herrmann as Franklin D. Roosevelt. The most recent award Anna Lee achieved is Daytime Emmy Awards. The upcoming new movie Anna Lee plays is Beyond the Next Mountain which will be released on Jul 07, 2004.

The daughter of a clergyman, Anna Lee was born Joan Boniface Winnifrith and encouraged to pursue an acting career by her father. After training at London's Royal Albert Hall, she took to the boards and later began appearing in English films, first as an extra, then working her way up to featured roles and finally earning the unofficial title "The Queen of the Quota Quickies". Lee and her husband, director Robert Stevenson, relocated to Hollywood in the late 1930s, and Lee began starring in stateside productions as well as becoming a fixture of the John Ford stock company (she appeared in Qu'elle était verte ma vallée (1941), Le Massacre de Fort-Apache (1948) and a half-dozen others). In 1970, she became the seventh wife of novelist, poet and playwright Robert Nathan (Le portrait de Jennie (1948), Honni soit qui mal y pense (1947)); they married three months after they met. Now widowed, Lee continued despite adversity, regularly playing wealthy Lila Quartermaine on the soap opera Hôpital central (1963). She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire at the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to drama. On May 14, 2004, Anna Lee passed away from pneumonia at age 91 at her home in Beverly Hills, California.