Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series
Movies
A Study in Terror, The Fixer, The Raging Moon, Nothing but the Night, Tales That Witness Madness, Galileo, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Love at Stake, Victim of Love, Murder Reported, Running Scared, My Mother India
TV Shows
Fish Police, Gravedale High, Paddington Bear, The Roads to Freedom
Star Sign
Libra
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Fact
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She was awarded the 1987 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Lead Performance for "Roza" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
2
She was awarded the 1987 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "Roza" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
3
Mother to Jonathan Simon Wigan (b. 1969).
4
One of her neighbours, and frequent dance partner, was the famous hairdresser Vidal Sassoon. When he opened his first salon in 1954, she was his first customer.
5
A lover of jazz, she selected her professional name from the 1925 tune "Sweet Georgia Brown".
6
The role of "Nancy" in "Oliver!" was originally written with author Lionel Bart's friend Alma Cogan in mind, but Alma was unable to commit to the role, although she did record a soundtrack recording of "Oliver!" Georgia later replaced Rachel Roberts in the title role of Bart's musical "Maggie May" in 1965.
7
A permanent resident of the United States, Brown died at age 59 during a visit to London due to complications during emergency surgery to remove an intestinal obstruction.
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Recorded several solo albums, including The Many Shades of Georgia Brown and Georgia Brown Sings Gershwin.
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Was educated at The Central Foundation Grammar School, London.
10
Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Awards as Best Actress (Musical): in 1963 for "Oliver!" and in 1990 for a revival of "Threepenny Opera."
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Once shared a London flat with jazz singer Annie Ross in the early 50s and initially was a member (along with Ross) of the jazz vocal group called Lambert, Hendricks, Ross & Brown. She left abruptly after a very short time and the group later went on to fame as simply Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.
12
British cabaret songstress. Made her first London appearance in 1956 in a revival of The Threepenny Opera at the Royal Court.
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Daughter of Mark and Anne (Kirshenbaum) Klot.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
My Mother India
2001
Documentary
Dr. Kim (voice)
Baby Talk
1992
TV Series
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1990-1992
TV Series
Helena Rozhenko
Fish Police
1992
TV Series
Goldie
Cheers
1990-1991
TV Series
Madame Lazora
Victim of Love
1991
TV Movie
Emma
Murder, She Wrote
1989-1991
TV Series
Kate Kelley / Dorothy Westerfield
Sydney
1990
TV Series
Linda Kells
Paddington Bear
1989-1990
TV Series
Mrs. Bird
Gravedale High
1990
TV Series
Headmistress Crone / Crone
A Peaceable Kingdom
1989
TV Series
Maggie
Love at Stake
1987
Widow Chastity
Faerie Tale Theatre
1985
TV Series
Maggie
Actor
1978
TV Movie
Salche Weissenfreund
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
Mrs. Freud
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
1976
Jenny Jones
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974-1975
TV Mini-Series
Mrs. Peachum / Mrs Peachum
Galileo
1975
Ballad Singer's Wife
Shoulder to Shoulder
1974
TV Mini-Series
Annie Kenney
The Good Old Days
1974
TV Series
The Protectors
1973
TV Series
Ilona Tabori / Maria Ghardala
Tales That Witness Madness
1973
Fay Patterson (segment 1 "Mr. Tiger")
Menace
1973
TV Series
Ellen Foster
Full House
1973
TV Series
Nothing But the Night
1973
Joan Foster
The Edwardians
1972
TV Mini-Series
Marie Lloyd
Running Scared
1972
Sarah
Upstairs, Downstairs
1972
TV Series
Evelyn Larkin
Trial
1971
TV Series
Jean Royston
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1971
TV Series
Jo
Long Ago, Tomorrow
1971
Sarah Charles
Roads to Freedom
1970
TV Series
Lola
The Coward Revue
1969
TV Movie
Lock Up Your Daughters!
1969
Nell
The Fixer
1968
Marfa Golov
Sherlock Holmes
1968
TV Series
Rachel
The Morecambe & Wise Show
1968
TV Series
The Saint
1967
TV Series
Diya
Take a Sapphire
1966
TV Movie
Domitila
A Study in Terror
1965
Singer
The Army Game
1960
TV Series
Lucy / Pvt. Murgatroyd
World Theatre
1959
TV Mini-Series
Yvette Pottier
Murder Reported
1957
Myra
Five Guineas a Week
1956
Short
Singer
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Study in Terror
1965
performer: "Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Dee-Aye" uncredited, "In These Hard Times"
The Ed Sullivan Show
1964
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
This Is Your Life
1991
TV Series documentary
Herself
The 44th Annual Tony Awards
1990
TV Special
Herself - Nominee: Best Leading Actress in a Musical