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Yvonne Mitchell (born July 7 1925 in London,
England, United Kingdom|UK; died March 24 1979 in
London, England, United Kingdom|UK) was a United
Kingdom|British stage, television and film
actress, probably best remembered for her role as
Julia in the 1954 BBC ONE|BBC Television
adaptation of George Orwell's novel Nineteen
Eighty-Four (TV programme)|Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Already an experienced stage actress, she did not
make her speaking debut in film until the age of
twenty-four in The Queen of Spades (1949),
although she had played an uncredited minor role
in Love on the Dole eight years earlier. She went
on to appear in several prominent film roles over
the following three decades, winning a British
Academy of Film and Television Arts|British Film
Award for The Divided Heart (1954) and the Berlin
Film Festival Award for Woman in a Dressing Gown
(1957).

On television, Mitchell was voted Television
Actress of the Year for 1953 by the Daily Mail
newspaper, mainly for her role as Cathy in the
Nigel Kneale / Rudolph Cartier adaptation of Emily
Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights. The following
year, she appeared in another Kneale / Cartier
literary adaptation when she took the role of
Julia opposite Peter Cushing as Winston Smith in
their controversial and well-remembered adaptation
of Nineteen Eighty-Four (TV programme)|Nineteen
Eighty-Four, which was to prove her most memorable
role on the small screen. She continued to act
occasionally on television until the late 1970s,
appearing in guest roles in series such as Out of
the Unknown (in 1966); her final screen role was
in the BBC science-fiction series 1990 in 1977.

Outside of acting, Mitchell was also an
established writer, penning several books for
children and adults as well as winning awards for
playwriting. She wrote an acclaimed biography of
the France|French writer Colette, and her own
autobiography was published in 1957.

Mitchell was married to the film and theatre
critic David Monsey, and died of cancer in 1979,
at the age of fifty-three.

==External links==
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0593814/ Internet
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