Cathryn Harrison
Cathryn Mary Lee Harrison (25 May 1959 – October 2018) was an English actress. Cathryn was baptised on 27 September 1959 at St.John's Church,Hampstead,London,England. She is the daughter of the actor and singer Noel Harrison and Sara Lee Eberts and also the grand daughter of legendary actor Sir Rex Harrison.Her brother Simon Harrison is also an actor as well as her sister Harriet Harrison. She has a brother Will and a sister Chloe from her father's second marriage, and an older sister Zoe from her mother's first marriage to Carleton John Richard Tufnell. In May 1996 she married Paul Laing the son of Ronald David Laing and uses that name since then. Her most notable performances include Lily in Black Moon as well as many made-for-television movies including Portrait of a Marriage where she plays Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville West's lesbian lover. She began her career in Robert Altman's Images and after two decades of low roles, started a career in British television and radio dramas. She appeared in Love on a Branch Line and an 1977 Australian film called Blue Fire Lady. She also appeared as Major Tom Cadman's wife in the ITV series Soldier Soldier, and played wardrobe assistant Irenie in the film version of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser. She died in 2018.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8328 |
| Birthday | 1959-05-25 |
| Place of Birth | Marylebone, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Cathryn Mary Lee Harrison, |
1975
Black Moon
5.975/161
There is a global civil war between men and women. A teenage girl tries to escape this reality and arrives at a hidden place where a strange unicorn l...
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Black Moon
1987
Empire State
5.033/15
In the docklands of East London stands the Empire State, a nightclub full of magic and mystery. Designed like an ocean liner, it's become a battle gro...
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Empire State
1981
The Telephone
0/0
A young woman enacts an imaginative revenge on her boyfriend for playing away. Director Chris Petit made this three-minute short to test a new super 1...
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The Telephone
1972
Images
6.811/161
While holidaying in Ireland, a pregnant children's author finds her mental state becoming increasingly unstable, resulting in paranoia, hallucinations...
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Images
1976
The Witches of Pendle
5.5/2
A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.
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The Witches of Pendle
1977
Blue Fire Lady
6.75/4
Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her father's frustrations towards Jenny and her desires to...
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Blue Fire Lady
1987
The Happy Valley
6.143/7
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder....
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The Happy Valley
1987
Eat the Rich
6.222/36
Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class...
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Eat the Rich
1983
The Dresser
6.772/79
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggle...
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The Dresser
1984
A Christmas Carol
7.462/417
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...
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A Christmas Carol
1986
Duet for One
5.421/19
When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves her for another wo...
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Duet for One
1972
The Pied Piper
5.985/34
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter...
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The Pied Piper
1988
A Handful of Dust
6.107/42
English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance...
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A Handful of Dust
1978
Liza
0/0
Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and joins the group of admirers of his beautiful young cousin Liza.
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