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Upstairs, Downstairs actress Nicola Pagett dies aged 75

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image captionNicola Pagett enjoyed a varied acting career
Actress Nicola Pagett has died aged 75 after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, her family has confirmed.
Pagett was best known for playing Elizabeth Bellamy, the rebellious daughter of Richard and Lady Marjorie, in 1970s TV series Upstairs, Downstairs.
Performances in Harold Pinter plays, notably 1985 s Old Times, also defined her 30-year stage and screen career.
Her daughter Eve Swannell confirmed she passed very peacefully on Wednesday.
It followed a brain tumour diagnosis under three weeks ago, she told BBC News.
It was extremely sudden she added. I was by her side . ....

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Upstairs, Downstairs actress Nicola Pagett dies

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Upstairs, Downstairs actress Nicola Pagett dies
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Nicola Pagett enjoyed a varied acting career
Actress Nicola Pagett has died aged 75 after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, her family has confirmed.
Pagett was best known for playing Elizabeth Bellamy, the rebellious daughter of Richard and Lady Marjorie, in 1970s TV series Upstairs, Downstairs.
Performances in Harold Pinter plays, notably 1985 s Old Times, also defined her 30-year stage and screen career.
Her daughter Eve Swannell confirmed she passed very peacefully on Wednesday.
It followed a brain tumour diagnosis under three weeks ago, she told BBC News.
It was extremely sudden she added. I was by her side . ....

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Barbara Windsor: Remembering an icon

THERE will be thousands of tributes for that British institution Dame Barbara Windsor, who died last week from Alzheimer’s at a London care home. She was 83.
Most will concentrate on her many starring roles in the Carry On series of films or as publican Peggy Mitchell in TV soap EastEnders.
Some will deal with her close relationships with criminals and others will patronise much of her work.
Although she was known for her Conservative sympathies, her talent won admiration from across the political spectrum, and I think we should look back on the long career of a working-class actor who, long before her stardom, had been in the 1950s an enthusiastic and much-valued member of one of Britain’s most significant and influential left-wing theatre groups, Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop. ....

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