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Agnes Bernelle
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Born
March 7
,
1923
·
Berlin, Germany
Died
February 15
,
1999
·
Dublin, Ireland
(lung cancer)
Birth name
Agnes Bernauer
Height
5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
Mini Bio
Agnes Bernelle was born on March 7, 1923 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress and writer, known for
The Good Companions (1957)
,
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
and
Still Life (1999)
. She was married to
Desmond Leslie
. She died on February 15, 1999 in Dublin, Ireland.
Family
Spouse
Desmond Leslie
(August 18, 1945 - 1969) (divorced, 3 children)
Trivia
Her one-woman show of songs by
Kurt Weil
and
Bertolt Brecht
was savaged by British TV critic
Bernard Levin
. Levin was attacked for his remarks by her husband,
Desmond Leslie
, during a live broadcast of
That Was the Week That Was (1962)
.
Her father was director
Rudolph Bernauer
.
Became notorious as the first non-stationary nude in English theatre.
She spent the later years of her life with her second partner, the historian and author Maurice Craig, in Sandymount, County Dublin.
She was a Berlin-born expatriate actress and singer, who lived in England for many years, then in Ireland.
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