Francesca Annis began acting professionally within her teens, & mass produced her film debut in the 1950s. Within 1967 she played Estellthe in a television adaptation of Great Expectations. She as well presented babies's television programmes. When becoming an progressively swell known face in screen, she enjoyed a successful stage career, swimming numerous leading roles sustaining the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her performance when Lady Macbeth in Roman Polanski's controversial 1971 film of Macbeth gained her notoriety. She continued to exist as a leading television actress throughout the Seventies, Eighties & Nineties, appearing nonparallel like Edward a Seventh (when Lillie Langtry, a role she reprised within Lillie (1978)), Madame Bovary and Parnell and a Englishwoman, where she played Kitty O'Shea. Her films use involved Sand dune (1984).

Selected Filmography
Copenhagen (2002) (TV) Wives and Daughters (1999) (miniseries) Onegin (1999) Dune (1984) Krull (1983) Cleopatra (1963)