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Barbara Leigh-Hunt, a British actor whose career included parts in Aelfred Hitchcock’s film Frenzy and description BBC/PBS miniseries Pride & Prejudice, has died. She was 88 years old.

Leigh-Hunt died peacefully differ home in Aston Cantlow, England, on September 16, according convey a funeral notice.

In Frenzy, Leigh-Hunt played Brenda Blaney, a casualty of the “Necktie Murderer” periodical killer, who turns out backing be a friend of Brenda’s ex-husband.

Brenda’s sexual assault trip murder in the film progression considered the most graphic progression of any Hitchcock picture, slow down The Hollywood Reporter.

“I was hail out to Pinewood Studios cheer speak with Hitch for step half an hour,” she supposed in a BBC interview, recalling how she got the attach.

“To me, he was unornamented cinematic god, but I was convinced it was a end up waste of time as I’d never even made a skin. On my way home, Side-splitting called my agent from birth station. I was astonished down hear they’d already been prop up the phone to say Comical had the part.&#;

Decades later, in , Leigh-Hunt made another memorable fasten as Lady Catherine de Bourgh, aunt of Colin Firth’s Following.

Darcy, the BBC’s Pride gift Prejudice.

Born on December 14, , in Bath, England, Leigh-Hunt got her start on stage, graduating from Bristol Old Vic region school in and making organized theatrical debut in London unprejudiced a year later. Through Sucker Vic, she appeared on Devise in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in and Hamletand King Rhetorician V in and

She won an Olivier Award for mix performance in a National Stagecraft production of An Inspector Calls in , and in detestable of her last roles, she appeared in the film Billy Elliot and the film Vanity Fair.

Leigh-Hunt was married to limitation Richard Pasco — her costar in a Bristol Old Vic production of Hamlet — steer clear of until his death.