McKenna at an anti badger cull demonstration, Westminster, London, June 2013
Born
Virginia Anne McKenna
(1931-06-07) 7 June 1931 (age 92)
Marylebone, County of London, (now Inner London) England
Alma mater
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupation(s)
Stage and screen actress, author
Years active
1952–present
Spouses
Denholm Elliott
(m. 1954; div. 1957)
Bill Travers
(m. 1957; died 1994)
Children
4
Dame Virginia Anne McKenna[1]DBE (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author, animal rights activist, and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with the Born Free Foundation.[2]
^"Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 14 March 2011.
^"The History of Born Free". bornfree.org.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
Dame Virginia Anne McKenna DBE (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author, animal rights activist, and wildlife campaigner. She...
Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple VirginiaMcKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple...
British Triple Crown in competitive acting categories are Judi Dench, VirginiaMcKenna, Peggy Ashcroft, Nigel Hawthorne, Julie Walters, Albert Finney, Helen...
a comedy, The Smallest Show on Earth (1957), with his second wife VirginiaMcKenna, whom he had married in 1957. Back in Hollywood, he was Eleanor Parker's...
executed while serving in Nazi-occupied France. Szabo was played by VirginiaMcKenna. Violette Bushell is a young woman whose father is English, and whose...
English actors and wildlife campaigners Bill Travers (1922–1994) and VirginiaMcKenna, and nephew of actress Linden Travers. In 1964, at the age of five...
detail." Secretly bisexual, Elliott was married twice: first to actress VirginiaMcKenna for a few months in 1954, and later in an open marriage to American...
charity reportedly had a network of 17,000 volunteers. Sir Paul McCartney and VirginiaMcKenna are the charity's patrons. "The volunteers helping to look after...
Simba Group Film Brian Desmond Hurst Peter de Sarigny Dirk Bogarde, VirginiaMcKenna Set in Kenya during Mau Mau Feb 1955 Out of the Clouds Ealing Basil...
Living Free. Born Free (1966), 95 minutes; starring Bill Travers and VirginiaMcKenna – George Adamson was the technical advisor. Directed by James Hill...
Will Travers of the Born Free Foundation, and granddaughter of actors VirginiaMcKenna and Bill Travers. Her mother Carrie is a teacher, and she has a younger...
starring Kirk Douglas, Simon Ward, Agostina Belli, Anthony Quayle, VirginiaMcKenna, and Alexander Knox. The original musical score was composed by Ennio...
understand they could not keep him in London. When Bill Travers and VirginiaMcKenna, stars of the film Born Free, visited Rendall and Bourke's furniture...
Doctors, A Country Practice and Home and Away. Ball cited film stars VirginiaMcKenna and Chips Rafferty and Australian actor Ray Meagher as amongst his...
million copies and was made into a film starring Bill Travers and VirginiaMcKenna in 1969. Gavin Maxwell was the youngest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Aymer...
Lynch Bill Maher Keith Mann Jim Mason Dan Mathews Jo-Anne McArthur Luísa Mell VirginiaMcKenna Ingrid Newkirk Heather Nicholson Jack Norris Ric O'Barry...
favourite lions. VirginiaMckenna loved the drawing and Hodges stated this gave him greater confidence as an artist. Hodges and McKenna have remained friends...
novel was adapted to film in 1956 as A Town Like Alice. It starred VirginiaMcKenna and Peter Finch, directed by Jack Lee. This film was known as Rape...
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