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Flora Robson (March 28, 1902 – July 7, 1984)
was a British Actor|actress renowned as one of the
great character players and one of Britain's
theatrical grandes dames.  

She was born in South Shields, England and made
her stage debut in 1921 at the age of 19.  Lacking
the glamorous looks of a leading lady, she
specialised in character roles, notably that of
Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I in both
Fire over England (1937) and The Sea Hawk (1940). 
At the age of 32, Robson played the old Empress
Elizabeth in Alexander Korda's Catherine the Great
(1934). 

After the war, demonstrating her range, she
appeared in Holiday Camp (1947), the first of a
series of films which featured the very ordinary
Huggett family; as the Mother Superior in Black
Narcissus (1947); as a magistrate in Goodtime Girl
(1948); as a prospective Labour MP in Frieda
(1947); and in costume melodrama, Saraband for
Dead Lovers (1948).

It was her success in Hollywood that brought her
recognition, and in 1960 she was created a Order
of the British Empire|Dame of the British Empire. 
She died in Brighton.