Betty Paul

Betty Paul (21 May 1921 – 27 February 2011) was a British actress, screenwriter, and novelist. She starred in stage plays, including on Broadway.

Paul wrote for television with her husband Peter Lambda. She received a nomination for a New York Critics' Award.

Early life Paul was born Betty Percheron on 21 May 1921 at Hendon in north-west London. She was the youngest of three children. Her French father was a furnishing fabrics importer and her mother was London Irish. She attended South Hampstead High School and the Institut Francais, later leaving at age 14 to be an actress, singer, and dancer due to the influence of her mother. In 1936, a year after the end of her education, she was in London's West End portraying Adele in Jane Eyre at Queen's Theatre. Two years later, she was the youngest member in C.B. Cochran's Young Ladies troupe.

Paul married her third husband, Hungarian-born sculptor Peter Lambda, in 1958 and they wrote for stage and television together. Their productions include creating the first rural soap opera, Weavers Green, as well as The Probation Officer, and Harriet's Back in Town.