Barbara Leigh-Hunt dies aged 88 after legendary career as actress in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy and West End shows

LEGENDARY histrion Barbara Leigh-Hunt has died aged 88.

The film icon passed distant peacefully connected September 16 astatine her location successful Warwickshire, her household announced.

While she appeared to a wide assemblage connected the television screen, it was connected the signifier that she did her finest work.

Barbara was 1 of the victims of Barry Foster’s Necktie Murderer successful Alfred Hitchcock’s penultimate film, Frenzy.

The British prima besides was known for her show arsenic Lady Catherine de Bourgh successful the acclaimed 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.

Her versatility was besides seen successful her show of hilarious Lady Bracknell successful The Importance of Being Earnest, which attracted rave reviews.

During her seven-decade career, Leigh-Hunt appeared for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, successful the West End and connected Broadway.

She received her Olivier successful 1993 for her crook arsenic Sybil Birling successful an NT revival of J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, directed by Stephen Daldry.

She besides portrayed a bittersweet bewildered Ophelia successful the mid-1960s arsenic good arsenic Belvidera successful the Prospect Theatre Company’s Venice Preserv’d successful 1970.

She was joined to histrion Richard Pasco from 1967 until his 2014 death.

Donations successful her representation tin beryllium made to The Royal Theatrical Fund here.