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She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2004 Queen's New Year Honours List for her services to drama.

She has been acclaimed by theatre critic Michael Billington as having an "extraordinary quality of moral authority" and "carries weight and substance behind everything she says".

Nominated Best Actress at the 2008 Laurence Olivier Awards for "John Gabriel Borkman" at the Donmar Warehouse.

Appeared on the BAFTA Film shortlist for Best Supporting Actress in the following roles: 1986 for Clockwise (1986), 1987 for Grido di libertà (1987) and 1994 for Il segreto di rapture (1993).

Nominated for the 1981 Laurence Olivier Award - Actress of the Year in a Revival for "Man & Superman" at the National Theatre (Olivier).

Nominated for the 1988 Laurence Olivier Award - Actress of the Year in a New Play for "The Secret Rapture" at the National Theatre (Lyttelton). She played the same character (Marion French) in the film adaptation of David Hare's play in 1993.

Nominated for the 2007 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards as Best Actress for John Gabriel Borkman at the Donmar Warehouse.

Gave birth to her 1st child at age 30, a stillborn son 9 weeks early in 1976. Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 31, a daughter Alice Linden Penelope Massey 8 weeks early in late 1977. Both children were by her 1st husband, Daniel Massey.

Nominated Best Actress at the 2008 Royal Television Society Awards for Five Days, Celebration and Half Broken Things.

Appeared on the BAFTA Television shortlist for Best Actress in the following roles: 1985 for Ever Decreasing Circles, 1987 for The Monocled Mutineer, 1993 for The Borrowers, 1999 for Talking Heads 2: Nights in the Gardens of Spain and 2006 for Falling.

Daughter of Clifford (1916-1987) and Alice (née Travers) Wilton (1915-1976). Sister of Lindy Wilton and mother of Alice Massey. Daniel Massey married Lindy Wilton after divorcing her sister, Penelope.

She was awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to Drama. She is an actress in London, England.

She was awarded the 1993 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actress for her performance in The Deep Blue Sea. Her former husband, Ian Holm, was awarded Best Actor for his performance in Moonlight at the same awards.

She was once married to Ian Holm, who played Frodo Baggins in a BBC Radio 4 dramatization of The Lord of the Rings. In L'alba dei morti dementi (2004), her husband is played by Bill Nighy, who played Sam Gamgee opposite Holm in the same Radio 4 production. Also appearing in the film was Martin Freeman, who played the younger version of Holm's Bilbo Baggins.

Named Best Actress (along with her co-star, Margaret Tyzack) at the 2008 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards for "The Chalk Garden" at the Donmar Warehouse.

She was nominated for a 2001 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Little Foxes at the Donmar Warehouse.

Preparing for her role in The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse (June-August 2008) in the West End. Nominated for Best Actress at the 2009 Laurence Olivier Awards for her performance. (febbraio 2008)

She was awarded the 1981 London Critics' Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actress of 1980 for her performances in Much Ado About Nothing and Man and Superman.

Rehearsing for her leading role in T.S. Eliot's "The Family Reunion", opposite Samuel West, at the Donmar Warehouse opening later this month. (novembre 2008)

She played Regan in two adaptations of the play "King Lear" by William Shakespeare: King Lear (1975) and King Lear (1982).

Nominated for the 1994 Laurence Olivier Award - Best Actress in a Play for "The Deep Blue Sea" at the Almeida and the Apollo Theatres in the West End.

Niece of actor Bill Travers and actress Linden Travers. Cousin of actor Richard Morant.

Won the Laurence Olivier best actress award for Taken at Midnight on London's west end stage .

Ex-stepmother of Melissa Holm, Barnaby Holm, Harry Holm, Jessica Holm and Sarah-Jane Holm.

She was born in Scarborough in 1947 but was taken to London when she was 3 when her family moved there.