Claire Van Kampen dead aged 71: Wife of Oscar-winning actor Sir Mark Rylance dies on his birthday after cancer battle

SIR Mark Rylance's woman Claire Van Kampen has died aged 71.

She passed distant connected what is her husbands 65th day surrounded by her household aft being diagnosed with cancer.

Claire was a performance pianist, composer, playwright and theatre director.

She worked successful a fig of positions astatine Shakespeare's Globe for implicit 20 years - with her credits including composing euphony for a 1989 accumulation of Hamlet starring Sir Mark.

In a connection from the histrion and the couple's girl Juliet, Claire was described arsenic "one of the funniest and (most) inspiring women we person ever known".

It added: "We convey her for imbuing our lives with her magic, music, laughter, and love.

"Ring the bell, dependable the trumpets reverie, thing is done, thing is beginning. One of the large omniscient ones has passed."

Claire created archetypal scores for Broadway productions of True West successful 2000, Boeing-Boeing successful 2008, and La Bete successful 2010.

As good arsenic adaptations of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Richard III.