Margaret Lockwood Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Karachi-born Margaret Lockwood, daughter of a British colonial railway clerk, was educated in London and studied to be an actress at the Italia Conti Drama School. Her first moment on stage came at the age of 12, when she played a fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1928. She had a bit part in the Drury Lane production of "Cavalcade" in 1932, ...
Started performing in cabarets as Margie Day at age 10. She made her professional debut in 1928 as a fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Holborn Empire.
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Because of a disorder of the middle ear that caused her problems maintaining her balance, Lockwood spent her later years out of the public eye in the exclusive London suburb of Kingston upon Thames.
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Attended the Royal Aademy of Dramatic Arts.
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Attended London's Belvedere College and Sydenham High School.
Was a committed teetotaller all her life and detested the taste of alcohol. She preferred to drink hot chocolate, buying 60 sachets at a time and calling it "my tipple".
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Became a recluse during the latter part of her life. She would only receive family and close friends such as Phyllis Calvert, who would take her on drives to the garden center.
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Has four grandchildren, Timothy, Nicholas, Lucy and Catherine.
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Retired to a stylish house on a cul-de-sac in Kingston upon Thames, where she spent the rest of her life in a quiet, tree-lined street amongst her neighbors.
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Britain's #1 box-office star during the 1940s. She would hold signing sessions in cinemas for her fans across the nation.
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Would wear a balaclava as a disguise and make a quick exit at the stage door before anyone noticed her.
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Husband Rupert Leon was insanely jealous of her fame and beauty - he disliked her wearing makeup, forbade her to smoke and tried to force her into retiring from the screen.
Suffered from vestibulitis, a viral ear infection for much of her later life.
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She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1981 Queen's New Year Honours List, which was her last public appearance. She lived in virtual seclusion until her death nine years later.
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Lived for many years with actor John Stone, who appeared with her in the 1959 play "And Suddenly It's Spring" and the TV series Justice (1971).
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In 1965 she co-starred in the popular British television series The Flying Swan (1965) with her daughter Julia Lockwood.
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Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where she was seen in a production and signed by a leading London agent.
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Used Margie Day briefly as her stage name at the very beginning of her stage career.
$13 Million
