Yvette Rees

{{Short description|Welsh actress (1924–1993)}}

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Yvette Rees, (22 May 1924 Swansea, Wales – 1993 in Ealing, London) born Eiros Yvette Rees, was a Welsh actress who appeared in many TV series and several noteworthy films in the 1960s.{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba7ee33d2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811164240/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba7ee33d2|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 August 2018|title=Yvette Rees|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=60161|title=Yvette Rees|website=www.aveleyman.com}} She trained at RADA, and graduated in 1949.{{cite web|url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/yvette-rees/|title=Yvette Rees — RADA|website=www.rada.ac.uk}} In the mid-1970s she moved to Australia where she continued to work on TV and film until 1979 when she appears to have retired.{{cite web|url=http://www.wwwentworth.co.uk/epis055.htm|title=Prisoner: Cell Block H - episode 55|website=www.wwwentworth.co.uk}} She is perhaps best remembered for her memorable role in 1964's Witchcraft as the witch Vanessa Whitlock who returns from the grave to avenge being buried alive several hundred years previously.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/witchcraft-v129991/cast-crew|title=Witchcraft (1964) - Don Sharp - Cast and Crew - AllMovie|website=AllMovie}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dBHDwAAQBAJ&q=don+sharp+witchcraft&pg=PA164|title=A Green and Pagan Land: Myth, Magic and Landscape in British Film and Television|first=David|last=Huckvale|date=18 January 2018|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476670508|via=Google Books}}

Yvette is also the grandmother of stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen.{{cite web|url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2016/04/07/heres-how-riley-keough-met-her-husband/82748514/|title=Here's how Riley Keough met her husband|publisher=}} Through her son Simon, who also worked in TV and cinema. She was married to Morten Smith-Petersen.