Francesca Annis

Francesca Annis is an English actress. She is known for television roles in Reckless , Wives and Daughters , Deceit and Cranford . A sixtime BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 1979 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the ITV serial Lillie. Her film appearances include Krull , Dune , The Debt Collector and The Libertine .

Annis was born in Kensington, London in 1945 to an English father, Lester William Anthony Annis and a BrazilianFrench mother, actress Mariquita Purcell , both sometime actors and Mara, a singer. Mara was from a wealthy Brazilian family, and the Annises moved to Brazil when Francesca was a year old, and spent six years there, returning to England when she was 7. In recollecting the years in Brazil, she describes her parents as running a nightclub on Copacabana beach, and her mother Mara performing as a blues singer.

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