Background
WHITELAW, Billie was born on June 6, 1932 in Coventry. Daughter of Perceval and Frances Whitelaw.
WHITELAW, Billie was born on June 6, 1932 in Coventry. Daughter of Perceval and Frances Whitelaw.
Thornton Grammar School, Bradford.
Hotel Paradiso, Winter Garden 1954 and Oxford Playhouse 1956, Progress to the Park, Theatre Workshop and Saville 1961, England our England, Prince’s 1962, Touch of the Poet, Venice and Dublin 1962; with National Theatre 1963-1965, Othello, London and Moscow, Hobson’s Choice, Play (Beckett), Trelawny of the Wells, The Dutch Courtesan, After Haggerty, Criterion 1971, Not 1, Royal Court 1973 and 1975, Alphabetical Order, Mayfair 1975, Footfalls, Royal Court 1976, Molly, Comedy 1978, Happy Days, Royal Court 1979, The Greeks, Aldwyeh 1980, Passion Play, Aldwych 1981, Rockaby, National Theatre 1982, New York 1982, 1984, Riverside Studios 1986, world tour 1985/86, Tales from Hollywood, National Theatre 1983, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Young Vic 1987. Films include: Number Love Foreign Johnnie 1961, Charlie Bubbles 1968, Twisted Nerve 1968, The Adding Machine 1968, Start the Revolution Without Maine, Leo the Last, Eagle in a Cage 1969, Gumshoe 1971, Frenzy 1972, Night Watch 1973, The Omen 1976, Leopard in the Snow, The Water Babies 1977, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman 1981, Slayground 1983, The Chain 1984, Shadey 1985, Maurice The Dressmaker 1988, Joyriders 1989, The Krays 1990. Television includes: Number Trams to Lime Street, Lena Oh My Lena, Resurrection, The Skin Game, Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, Lady of the Camelias, The Pity of it all, Love on the Dole, A World of Time, You and I, Poet Game, Sextet (8 plays), Napoleon and Love (9 plays, as Josephine), The Fifty Pound Note (Ten From the Twenties), The Withered Arm (Wessex Tales), The Werewolf Reunion (2 plays), Shades by Samuel Beckett, Not I, Eustace and Hilda (2 plays), The Serpent Son, Happy Days (director by Beckett), A Tale of Two Cities, Jamaica Inn, Private Schultz, Camille, Old Girlfriends, The Picnic, The Secret Garden, Imaginary Friends, The 15 Streets, Footfalls, Rockaby, Eh Joe, Duel of Love, Loma Doone, Murder of Quality. Plays for radio: The Master Builder, Hindle Wakes, Jane Eyre, The Female Messiah, Alpha Beta, Marching Song, The Cherry Orchard, Vassa, Beckett’s All that Fall, Embers; Honorary Doctor of Literature (Bradford) 1981; Variety Club Silver HeartDirector by Beckett), A Tale of Two Cities, Jamaica Inn, Private Schultz, Camille, Old Girlfriends, The Picnic, The Secret Garden, Imaginary Friends, The 15 Streets, Footfalls, Rockaby, Eh Joe, Duel of Love, Loma Doone, Murder of Quality. Plays for radio: The Master Builder, Hindle Wakes, Jane Eyre, The Female Messiah, Alpha Beta, Marching Song, The Cherry Orchard, Vassa, Beckett’s All that Fall, Embers. Honorary Doctor of Literature (Bradford) 1981.
Variety Club Silver Heart.
Married 1st Peter Vaughan (divorced). Married 2nd Robert Muller.