{"id":35138,"date":"2015-02-03T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=35138"},"modified":"2015-02-03T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T04:18:14","slug":"vale-geraldine-mcewan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2015\/02\/03\/vale-geraldine-mcewan\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – Geraldine McEwan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Geraldine McEwan – 1932-2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Acclaimed British actress Geraldine McEwan, who portrayed Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple on television between 2004 and 2009, has passed away.<\/p>\n

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Ms McEwan’s career spanned not only television, but film and the stage as well. Primarily spending her early acting career on the stage – her debut came in A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/em> for the Windsor Repertory Company in 1946 – Ms McEwan had a wide variety of film appearances, including Escape From The Dark<\/em>, Henry V, The Magdelene Sisters, Vanity Fair, Carrie’s War<\/em> and as a voice in the Japanese fantasy film, Arrietty<\/em>. Her most prominent and popularly memorable role came in Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves<\/em>, playing Mortianna, opposite Alan Rickman’s Sheriff of Nottingham.<\/p>\n

Between 2004 and 2009, Ms McEwan portrayed Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, the famous female sleuth, for the long-running ITV series of the same name.<\/p>\n

Ms McEwan passed away on January 30th, following complications from a stroke. She was 82.<\/p>\n

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Geraldine McEwan (R) in a scene from Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, alongside Alan Rickman (L), in 1991.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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