Georgina Cookson

Antoinette Georgina Cookson (19 December 1918 – 1 October 2011) was a British film, stage and television actress.

Her mother, using the pseudonym Sydney Tremayne, was a novelist and contributed to The Tatler.

Cookson left Benenden School at the age of 15 to train at RADA.

[3] After graduating from RADA, she found constant work in both the regions and the West End theatre, appearing alongside Hermione Gingold in the wartime revue Rise Above It at the ‘Q’ (1940) and at the Comedy Theatre (1941).

Her last stage roles included a national tour of My Fair Lady in 1988 and, alongside Peggy Mount and Jack Douglas, A Breath of Spring in 1990.