Theodora FitzGibbon

Theodora FitzGibbon (née Rosling; later Morrison; 21 October 1916 – 25 March 1991) was an Irish cookery writer, model and actress.

[3] At age 18, she went on stage in repertory theatre in Birmingham and Coventry and joined a touring company, the English Players, in France under the pseudonym Karen Peterson.

She appeared in Anthony Asquith's film Freedom Radio (1941)[3] and acted on the stage in London on the West End.

[8] She met the photographer and surrealist painter Peter Rose Pulham (1910–1956) in Paris and began an affair.

Through him, she met many important figures of the Parisian art world: Balthus, Cocteau, Dali and Picasso.