Actor
Virginia Maskell
February 28, 1936 · Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK
Virginia Elizabeth Maskell (1936–1968) was an English actress, poet and artist. After attending drama school she featured in several television roles. Her film debut was a minor role for director Roy Boulting in Happy Is the Bride (1957), after which she began switching between the theatre and the screen.
She gained a British Lion contract and appeared in The Man Upstairs (1958) and as an air hostess in Jet Storm (1959). She made an impact on the stage in Ronald Duncan's The Catalyst, a play that initially the Lord Chamberlain's office had found troubling. There were distinguished appearances in live TV drama. She starred in Doctor in Love (1960), and as Peter Sellers's wife in Only Two Can Play (1962). She took a break from acting in 1962 to concentrate on her family, and returned after the birth of her second son to shoot Interlude (1968).
Often works with
Kenneth Griffith
4 titles together
The Prisoner, Only Two Can Play, Suspect
John Le Mesurier
3 titles together
Only Two Can Play, Doctor in Love, Happy Is the Bride
Richard Attenborough
3 titles together
Only Two Can Play, Jet Storm, The Man Upstairs
Colin Gordon
2 titles together
The Prisoner, Virgin Island
Patrick Cargill
2 titles together
The Prisoner, Doctor in Love
Mai Zetterling
2 titles together
Only Two Can Play, Jet Storm
