Background
Holme was born Thea Johnston in 1904. Her father was the architect Philip Mainwaring Johnston.
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Thea Holme
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She studied art at The Slade and then theatre at the Central School of Drama.
Career
She made her professional stage debut in 1924 as Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night"s Dream, at the Richmond Theatre. She performed for both the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and the British Broadcasting Corporation Repertory Company during World World War II, as well as directing at the Open Air Theatre in Regent"s Park. She appeared as a "castaway" on the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 4 October 1969, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
She died in 1980.
An obituary was published in The Times on 9 December.
