Antoinette Cellier
{{Short description|English actress (1913–1981)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}{{Use British English|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Antoinette Cellier
| image = Antoinette_Cellier.jpg
| imagesize =
| alt = A headshot of Cellier from 1938 edition of Film Star Who's Who on the Screen.
| caption = Cellier from Film Star Who's Who on the Screen (1938).
| birth_name = Florence Antoinette Glossop Cellier
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|6|23|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Broadstairs, Kent, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1981|1|18|1913|6|23|df=yes}}
| death_place = Chelsea, London, England
| othername =
| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive =
| spouse = {{marriage|Bruce Seton
|1940|1969|end=died}}
| children = 1
| parents = Frank Cellier
Florence Glossop-Harris
| relatives = Augustus Harris
(maternal grandfather)
François Cellier
(paternal grandfather)
Alfred Cellier
(great-uncle)
Peter Cellier
(half-brother)
Phyllis Shannaw
(stepmother)
}}
Antoinette Cellier, Lady Seton (23 June 1913 – 18 January 1981) was an English film and theatre actress. She appeared in fifteen feature films in the 1930s and 1940s. She was married to soldier and actor Sir Bruce Lovat Seton, 11th Baronet of Abercorn.
Family
She was born Florence Antoinette Glossop Cellier in Broadstairs, Kent, England.{{cite web |title=Antoinette Cellier |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f6d6e76 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716080326/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f6d6e76 |archive-date=2012-07-16 |access-date=2023-06-08 |work=BFI}} Her father, Frank Cellier, was a film and theatre actor, and her mother was Florence Glossop-Harris. Her grandparents included Augustus Harris, the actor-manager, and François Cellier, musical director of the Savoy Theatre. Her half-brother Peter Cellier also became a film, television and theatre actor.{{cite web |author=Brennan |first=Sandra |title=Peter Cellier - Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos - AllMovie |url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/peter-cellier-p11969 |access-date=2023-06-08 |work=AllMovie}}{{Cite book |last1=McFarlane |first1=Brian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3C5DwAAQBAJ&dq=Antoinette+Cellier&pg=RA1-PA1917 |title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth Edition |last2=Slide |first2=Anthony |date=1 January 2013 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=9780719091391 |pages=1917}}
In 1940, Cellier became the second wife of soldier and actor Sir Bruce Lovat Seton, 11th Baronet of Abercorn (1909–1969).{{Cite book |last=Maxford |first=Howard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lfp1DwAAQBAJ&dq=Antoinette+Cellier&pg=PA121 |title=Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company |date=2019-11-08 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2914-8 |pages=121 |language=en}} They had a daughter,{{Cite book |last=Aaker |first=Everett |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VLcuEQAAQBAJ&dq=Antoinette+Cellier&pg=PA498 |title=Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters: All Regular Cast Members in American Crime and Mystery Series, 1948-1959 |date=2024-10-17 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0636-1 |pages=498 |language=en}} Lydia Antoinette Gordon Seton (born 14 November 1941). After her husband's death in 1969, his Baronial title passed passed to his cousin Christopher Bruce Seton.
Career
Cellier was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.{{Cite web |last=Benson |date=2024-01-03 |title=Peter Cellier siblings: Meet Antoinette Cellier |url=https://abtc.ng/peter-cellier-siblings-meet-antoinette-cellier/ |access-date=2025-04-20 |website=ABTC |language=en-GB}} She made her stage début in the London's West End in Firebird.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KfMqFk_DWAC&q=%22Antoinette+Cellier%22+Firebird |title=The Playbill |date=1934 |publisher=New York Theatre Program Corporation |pages=10 |language=en}} Other stage performances included in the Day After Tomorrow at the Fortune Theatre, Quiet Weekend at the Playhouse Theatre, This Money Business at the Ambassadors Theatre, Coincidence at St Martin’s Theatre, and Sixteen at the Criterion Theatre.{{cite web |title=Antoinette Cellier |url=http://theatricalia.com/person/qfb/antoinette-cellier |access-date=2023-06-08 |work=Theatricalia}}
Cellier's first film appearance was in Music Hath Charms (1935) and she subsequently made fifteen feature films in the 1930s and 1940s.
Filmography
- Late Extra (1935)
- Music Hath Charms (1935)
- Royal Cavalcade (1935)
- The Tenth Man (1936)
- Ourselves Alone (1936)
- Death Croons the Blues (1937)
- The Great Barrier (1937)
- The Gables Mystery (1938)
- Lucky to Me (1939)
- I Killed the Count (1939)
- At the Villa Rose (1940)
- Dear Octopus (1943)
- Headline (1944)
- Bees in Paradise (1944)
- The End of the River (1947)
Death
Cellier died 18 January 1981, age 67, in Chelsea, London, England.{{Cite book |last=Aaker |first=Everett |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nqRkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Antoinette+Cellier%22+died+1981 |title=Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters: All Regular Cast Members in American Crime and Mystery Series, 1948-1959 |date=2006 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-2476-4 |pages=498 |language=en}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0148140}}
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Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Category:English film actresses
Category:English stage actresses
Category:Actresses from London
Category:Actors from Broadstairs
Category:20th-century English actresses
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