Fritha Goodey

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| birthname = Fritha Jane Goodey

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1972|10|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|9|7|1972|10|23|df=y}}

| death_place = Notting Hill, London, England

| occupation = Actress

| alma_mater = London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

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Fritha Jane Goodey (23 October 1972 – 7 September 2004) was a British stage, radio and film actress known for her performance in the film About a Boy (2002), in which she played one of Hugh Grant's character's former girlfriends.

Early life

Goodey was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Career

Goodey's stage work, most notably with Max Stafford-Clark's Out of Joint touring company, included Nadia in Some Explicit Polaroids (1999), Odette in Remembrance of Things Past (2000), Constance Neville in She Stoops to Conquer (2002) and Mrs. Garrick in A Laughing Matter. She had recently won a coveted role in a revival staging of Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/sep/10/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries |title=Fritha Goodey: Classically Beautiful Actor on the Edge of Stardom |department=Obituary |last=Coveney |first=Michael |date=2004-09-10 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |issn=17563224}}

Her radio works include The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes episode The Determined Client and Helena Justina in the serialisation of the Falco novelThe Silver Pigs.

Death

Having struggled with anorexia for years, on 7 September 2004 Goodey took her own life in Notting Hill, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, by stabbing herself in the chest.{{cite news|last1=Leitch |first1=Luke |last2=Davenport |first2=Justin |title=Suicide actress 'terrified of failure' |newspaper=Evening Standard|location=London |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/suicide-actress-terrified-of-failure-6957040.html |access-date=2024-08-12 |date=2012-04-13 |issn=20414404}} She was 31 years old.{{cite news|last=Weaver |first=Clair |title=Actress stabbed herself |newspaper=Evening Standard|location=London |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/actress-stabbed-herself-6967767.html |access-date=2024-08-12 |date=2012-04-13 |issn=20414404}}

Her funeral was at the West London Crematorium, Kensal Green.