Dialect Coach
21 December 1946 to 2 September 2021
A British dialect coach, who worked on more than 100 films and television series as well as more than 80 National Theatre productions. Her first major film credit was coaching Barbra Streisand for Yentl (1983). She would go on to work with the likes of Glen Close on 101 and 102 Dalmatians (1996, 2000); Cate Blanchett on The Life Aquatic (2004) and Cinderella (2015); Brendan Gleeson on Into the Storm (2009), Green Zone (2010) and Safe House (2012); Anne Hathaway on The Hustle (2019) and The Witches (2020); and many more high-profile actors and productions.
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