Margaret Leighton Overview:

Actress, Margaret Leighton, was born on Feb 26, 1922 in Barnt Green, Worcestershire. Leighton died at the age of 53 on Jan 13, 1976 in Chichester, Sussex .

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Although Leighton was nominated for one Oscar, she never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1971Best Supporting ActressThe Go-Between (1970)Mrs. MaudsleyNominated
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Her frequent co-star on both stage and screen was Ralph Richardson. She played Roxane to his Cyrano in the 1946 London stage revival of "Cyrano de Bergerac", one of Richardson's greatest stage successes.

She suffered from claustrophobia for most of her life.

Won two Tony Awards for Broadway performances as Best Actress (Dramatic): in 1957 for "Separate Tables" and in 1962 for Tennessee Williams' "The Night of the Iguana." She also received two other nominations in the same category: in 1960 for Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" and in 1963 for "Tchin-Tchin."

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