Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
12/18/1908
Place of Birth
Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
Also Known As
Celia Elizabeth JohnsonElizabeth JohnsonСелия Джонсон
Celia Johnson
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE (18 December 1908 – 25 April 1982) was a British actress.
She began her stage acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End and Broadway productions. She also appeared in several films, including the romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for BAFTA Awards on five occasions, and won twice, for her work in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), and for the television production Mrs. Palfrey at the ...
Known For
Brief Encounter
as Laura Jesson
Les Misérables
as Sister Simplice
Staying On
as Lucy Smalley
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
as Miss Mackay
The Captain's Paradise
as Maud St. James
The Hostage Tower
as Mrs. Wheeler
A Kid for Two Farthings
as Joanna
The Holly and the Ivy
as Jenny Gregory
The Good Companions
as Miss Trant
This Happy Breed
as Ethel Gibbons
The Cherry Orchard
as Madame Ranevskaya
I Believe in You
as Matty Matheson
In Which We Serve
as Mrs. Kinross / Alix
Romeo and Juliet
as Nurse
Letter from Home
as Mrs Taylor
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
as Mrs. Palfrey
The Astonished Heart
as Barbara Faber
A Bolt of Lightning
as Mary Otis
All's Well That Ends Well
as Countess of Rousillon
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Unknown Role