Imogen Hassall

Imogen Hassall was an English actress who appeared infilms during the 1960s and 1970s.

Named after Shakespeares Cymbeline heroine, she was born in Woking, Surrey, to a family of artists and businessmen. Her grandfather, John Hassall, and her aunt, Joan Hassall, worked as illustrators, while her father, Christopher Hassall, was a poet and lyricist. Her godfather is said to have been the composer Ivor Novello, with whom her father had worked extensively as lyricist. Yet on occasion Imogen would proudly claim that this distinction was Sir William Waltons with whom her father had collaborated in the early 1950s, quietly denied by Lady Walton. She studied in New York, USA circa 1958 . Resided in Hampstead Heath NW3 the same year.

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