Meg Wynn Owen

{{Infobox person

| name = Meg Wynn Owen

| image = Meg Wynn Owen.jpg

| caption = Wynn Owen in Blue Blood (1973)

| other_names = Margaret Wright

| birth_name = Margaret Shuttleworth

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|11|8|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Lancaster, Lancashire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|6||1939|11|8|df=y}}

| death_place =

| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1961–2011

| spouse = William Wright (1967–1987)

}}

Margaret Wright ({{née}} Shuttleworth, 8 November 1939 – June 2022), better known as Meg Wynn Owen, was a British actress known for her role as Hazel Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs. She also appeared in Gosford Park, Love Actually, Pride & Prejudice, Irina Palm, The Duellists and A Woman of Substance.

Early life

Wynn Owen was born Margaret Shuttleworth on 8 November 1939 in Lancaster, daughter of Margaret (née Brinnand) and Miles Shuttleworth.{{Cite web |date=2022-12-02 |title=Meg Wynn Owen obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/02/meg-wynn-owen-obituary |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=the Guardian |language=en}} When she was 13, she moved to Hoyland to live with her mother's friend Ruth Wynn Owen, who was a drama coach and actor, and her husband Ian Danby. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1956, she used her professional name, Meg Wynn Owen.

Personal life and death

Wynn Owen was married to Australian artist William Wright from 1967 to 1987.{{Cite book |last1=McFarlane |first1=Brian |title=The Encyclopedia of British Film |last2=Slide |first2=Anthony |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0719091391 |edition=4th |pages=2265}} In later life she suffered from dementia. She died in June 2022, aged 82.{{cite news |last1=Heren |first1=Kit |title=Love, Actually star 'reduced to dressing in dead people's clothes' after being conned out of life savings by a friend |url=https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/meg-wynn-owen-love-actually-star-conned/ |access-date=24 November 2022 |publisher=LBC |date=23 November 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Evans |first1=Jason |last2=Rusk |first2=Connie |title=Love Actually star had to wear dead woman's clothes after friend stole £65k life savings |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/love-actually-star-wear-dead-28566707 |access-date=24 November 2022 |publisher=The Mirror |date=23 November 2022}}

In November 2022, it was reported that her friend Brian Malam, to whom she had given power of attorney, had pleaded guilty to fraud for stealing £65,000 from her bank accounts, and was sentenced to 32 months in prison.{{Cite web |last=Nugent |first=Annabel |date=2022-11-24 |title=Man sentenced for stealing £65,000 from late Love Actually star |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/meg-wynn-owen-love-actually-upstairs-downstairs-b2232469.html |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=The Independent |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Jason |date=2022-11-23 |title=TV star had to wear dead woman's clothes after friend stole money |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/actress-dementia-dead-woman-clothes-25575538 |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=WalesOnline |language=en}}

Filmography (selected)

=Films=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1962

| Only Two Can Play

| Dilys

| {{Cite web |title=Meg Wynn Owen |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654207/ |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=IMDb |language=en}}

1972

|Under Milk Wood

|Lily Smalls

1973

|Blue Blood

|Beate Krug

1973

|Malachi's Cove

|Mally's Mother

1977

|The Duellists

|Leonie d’Hubert

1987

|The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

|Julia Flamands

2001

|Last Orders

|Joan

2001

|Gosford Park

|Lewis

2002

|Possession

|Mrs Lees

2003

|Love, Actually

|PM's secretary

2004

|Vanity Fair

|Lady Crawley

2005

|Pride & Prejudice

|Mrs Reynolds

2006

|Scoop

|housekeeper

2007

|Irina Palm

|Julia

2010

|Hereafter

|Mirror lady

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1962

| The Franchise Affair

| Betty Kane

| 3 episodes{{Cite web |title=Meg Wynn Owen |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654207/ |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=IMDb |language=en}}

1963

|Lorna Doone

|Annie Ridd

|10 episodes

1964

|Esther Waters

|Esther Waters

1970

|Smith

|Miss Mansfield

|5 episodes

1972

|Breeze Anstey

|Lorn

|{{Cite web |title=Meg Wynn Owen |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f9cf239 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313223142/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f9cf239 |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 March 2018 |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=BFI |language=en}}

1973-1974

|Upstairs, Downstairs

|Hazel Bellamy, née Forrest

|21 episodes

1978

|Will Shakespeare

|Anne Shakespeare

|{{Cite web |title=BFI Screenonline: Will Shakespeare (1978) |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1140675/index.html |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}

1983

|On the Razzle

|Frau Fischer

|TV film

1984

|Scarecrow and Mrs King

|Lady Gwyneth Bromfield

|1 episode

1984

|The Wedding

|Mrs Jackson

1984

|Travelling Man

|Gwen Owen

|1 episode

1985

|A Woman of Substance

|Elizabeth Harte

1985

|The Mimosa Boys

|Kathleen

|TV film

1987

|White Lady

|White Lady

1994

|The Lifeboat

|Vera Parry

|3 episodes

2003

|Doctors

|Marjorie Blake

|1 episode: series 5, episode 28{{Citation |title="Doctors" Mar-Cel Wave (TV Episode 2003) - IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0785958/ |language=en-US |access-date=2022-11-28}}

2004

|Family Business

|Iris Brooker

|6 episodes

2004

|Holby City

|Anna Jones

|1 episode: series 6, episode 38

2007

|The Last Detective

|Sheila Hopper

|1 episode: series 4, episode 3

2008

|The Bill

|Vera Andrews

|1 episode: series 24, episode 5

2009

|Doctors

|Eloise Beckley

|1 episode: series 11, episode 79{{Citation |title="Doctors" Hot Milk and Butterscotch (TV Episode 2009) - IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1491785/ |language=en-US |access-date=2022-11-28}}

2010

|Doctor Who

|Old Isabella

|A Christmas Carol episode{{Cite web |title=A Christmas Carol (2010) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4de8329e2d8b5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529173522/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4de8329e2d8b5 |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 May 2018 |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=BFI |language=en}}

2011

|The Jury

|Olive Livingstone

|Series 2

Theatre

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1965

| Macbeth

| Lady Macbeth

| Assembly Hall, Edinburgh{{Cite news |date=1965-09-17 |title=THÉÂTRE ET MUSIQUE A EDIMBOURG |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1965/09/17/theatre-et-musique-a-edimbourg_2200422_1819218.html |access-date=2022-12-14 |quote=Macbeth, staged by a local troupe, was given for the three weeks in the huge vessel of Assembly Hall ... a very young Lady Macbeth (Meg Wynn Owen).}}

1975

|Travesties

|Gwendolen Carr

|Albery Theatre, London, Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC){{Cite web |title=Meg Wynn Owen {{!}} RSC Performances {{!}} Shakespeare Birthplace Trust |url=https://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/rsc-performances/view_as/grid/search/everywhere:meg-wynn-owen-203739 |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=collections.shakespeare.org.uk}}

1977

|Absent Friends

|Marge

|Eisenhower Theater, Washington DC{{Cite news |last=Coe |first=Richard L. |date=1977-07-14 |title='Absent Friends' |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1977/07/14/absent-friends/b7298319-610e-4216-bb2b-9f969ad7332d/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |issn=0190-8286}}

1978

|Night of the Iguana

|Hannah Jelks

|Center Stage, Baltimore{{Cite news |last=Coe |first=Richard L. |date=1978-02-25 |title=A Night of Tennessee Williams |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/02/25/a-night-of-tennessee-williams/c42e10c2-b46c-4fff-a71c-d37f908e0057/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |issn=0190-8286}}

1979

|A Meeting by the River

|Penelope

|Palace Theater, Broadway{{Cite web |title=A Meeting by the River – Broadway Play – Original {{!}} IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/a-meeting-by-the-river-3930 |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=www.ibdb.com}}

1981

|Bodies

|Helen

|Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven{{Cite news |last1=Gussow |first1=Mel |last2=Times |first2=Special To the New York |date=1981-04-05 |title=STAGE: JAMES SAUNDERS'S 'BODIES' AT THE LONG WHARF |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/05/theater/stage-james-saunders-s-bodies-at-the-long-wharf.html |access-date=2022-12-14 |issn=0362-4331}}

1982

|Good

|Helen

|The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon (RSC)

2009

|Pygmalion

|Mrs Higgins

|Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold{{Cite news |last=Peter |first=John |date=18 October 2009 |title=Pygmalion at the Clwyd, Mold |language=en |work=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/theatre-dance/article/pygmalion-at-the-clwyd-mold-nck20ntww68 |access-date=2022-12-14}}

2010

|In The Pipeline

|Joan

|Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh{{Cite web |date=2010 |title=Theatre review: In the Pipeline |url=https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/pipelineSE-rev.htm |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=British Theatre Guide |language=en-GB}}

References

External links

{{IMDb name|id=0654207|name=Meg Wynn Owen}}

Category:1939 births

Category:2022 deaths

Category:20th-century Welsh actresses

Category:21st-century Welsh actresses

Category:Actors from Lancaster, Lancashire

Category:Actresses from Lancashire

Category:English people of Welsh descent

Category:Welsh film actresses

Category:Welsh stage actresses

Category:Welsh television actresses