Cathryn Harrison

Cathryn Mary Lee Harrison (25 May 1959 – October 2018) was an English actress.

[1] Harrison began her career with Robert Altman's film Images in 1972.

Her later performances included the role of Lily in Black Moon (1975), Louis Malle's first film in English, as well as many television programmes including Portrait of a Marriage (1990) in which she played Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville West's lesbian lover.

She worked in British television and radio dramas, appearing in Love on a Branch Line; a 1989 episode of Hannay, opposite Robert Powell; and a 1977 Australian film called Blue Fire Lady.

She also appeared as Major Tom Cadman's wife in the ITV series Soldier Soldier, she played assistant stage manager Irene in the film version of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser and her final film was The Three Dumas where she played as Marchioness Davy De La Pailleterie.