Brenda Forbes was a British-born American actress of stage and screen.
Background
Born as Dorothy Brenda Taylor in Wandsworth, London, the daughter of Ernest John and Ethel Louise Taylor. Her mother was actress Mary Forbes, and her elder brother was actor Ralph Forbes (né Ralph Taylor Forbes), she made her first film appearance in 1935 and her last in 1995.
Career
Forbes created the role of the outspoken maid, Wilson, in the original production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street opposite Katharine Cornell. She played the role in various revivals as well. She co-starred as Lady Vale in the 1967 musical Darling of the Day in which she and Peter Woodthorpe introduced the song Panache and played opposite George Rose in the 1986 all star cast revival of Aren"t We All? On screen she appeared in several films over a 50 year period including The Imperfect Lady (1935) and Mistress
Miniver (1942).
Her last role, a small one, was in The Jerky Boys: The Movie. She died from cancer in 1996, aged 87, in New York City.