Eleanor Bron

Eleanor Bron (born 14 March 1938) is an English stage, film and television actress and author.

Early life and family

Eleanor Bron was born in 1938 in Stanmore, Middlesex, into a Jewish family. Before her birth, her father Sidney had legally changed his name from Bronstein to Bron, in an effort to enhance his newly founded commercial enterprise, Bron's Orchestral Service.

She attended the North London Collegiate School and then Newnham College, Cambridge: she later characterized her time at Newnham as "three years of unparalleled pampering and privilege".

Bron was the partner of the architect Cedric Price for many years, until his death in 2003; they had no children. Her elder brother was the record producer Gerry Bron.

Career

Early work

Bron began her career in the Cambridge Footlights revue of 1959, entitled The Last Laugh, in which Peter Cook also appeared. The addition of a female performer to the Footlights was a departure, as it had until that point been all-male, with female characters portrayed in drag.