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Mary Ure (February 18, 1933 - April 3, 1975) was a
United Kingdom|British actress.


Born in Glasgow, where she studied at the School
of Drama, she would go on to train for the stage
at the Central School of Speech and Drama in
London. Known for her beauty, Ure began performing
on the London stage and quickly developed a
reputation for her abilities as a dramatic
actress.

While starring in John Osborne|John Osborne's
play, Look Back in Anger, she began a relationship
with the married Osborne and after he obtained a
divorce they married in 1957. Mary Ure went to New
York City in 1958 to star in the Broadway
production of Look Back in Anger and earned a Tony
Award nomination for "Best Dramatic Actress." The
highly successful play would be translated to film
in which Ms. Ure reprised her role alongside
Richard Burton. In the meantime, her marriage to
John Osborne was already in difficulty and in 1959
she began an affair with actor Robert Shaw  whom
she would eventually marry. 

In 1960, she appeared in the film Sons and Lovers
for which she was nominated for both the Golden
Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress. In 1961 she took time off to
begin a family and only returned to motion
pictures two years later. In 1967, she appeared in
a film with her husband Robert Shaw then the
following year teamed up again with Richard Burton
and up-and-coming actor Clint Eastwood in the box
office success, Where Eagles Dare.

Mary Ure did not return to film for another five
years but did perform on stage. However, her
personal life was in turmoil and her growing
alcoholism affected her career to the point where
she was fired from the 1974 pre-Broadway
production of Love for Love and replaced by her
understudy, Glenn Close.

In April of 1975, she appeared on the London stage
with Honor Blackman and Brian Blessed in the Don
Taylor play, The Exorcism. After the opening
night, Mary Ure died from what was said to be an
accidental overdose from a combination of alcohol
and barbiturates. However, because of her personal
problems, there has always been considerable
speculation that the 42-year-old actress committed
suicide.  The circumstances of her death led the
press to talk of a "curse" on the production in
which she was appearing.



==Plays (partial list):==
*Time Remembered  (1954) (London)
*Hamlet (1955)  (Stratford-upon-Avon|Stratford)
*A View from the Bridge (1956) (London)
*Look Back in Anger (1957) (London & Broadway)
*A Midsummer Night's Dream  (1959) (Stratford)
*Othello (1959) (Stratford)
*Duel of Angels (1960) (London & Broadway)
*The Changeling  (1961)  (London)
*Old Times (1971) (Broadway)
*Love for Love (1974) (Broadway)
*The Exorcism (1975) (London)

==Films==
*A Reflection of Fear (1973) 
*Where Eagles Dare  (1968) 
*Custer of the West  (1967)  
*The Luck of Ginger Coffey  (1964) 
*The Mind Benders  (1963) 
*Sons and Lovers  (1960) 
*Look Back in Anger  (1958) 
*Windom's Way  (1957) 
*Storm Over the Nile  (1955)