Fiona Gaunt

Fiona Elizabeth Keet-Gaunt (born 25 May 1947) is an English actress and the mother of actress Genevieve Gaunt.

Personal life According to a 1972 newspaper profile, Gaunt was born in Beirut to Scottish Presbyterian parents and lived in Uganda until she was 16. In 1985 she met the Dutch actor Frederik de Groot. Their daughter, Genevieve, was born in January 1991.

Career Fiona Gaunt trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 1969. She subsequently played opposite Anthony Hopkins - as Hélène Kuragina, wife of Pierre Bezukhov - in the BBC's 1972 production of War and Peace. She then starred as psychiatrist Helen Smith in the 1973 science fiction series Moonbase 3.

Filmography

Selected stage credits The Wizard of Oz - Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford: 1969-70 Murder in the Cathedral - Canterbury Cathedral: 1970 Undiscovered Country - Oliver Theatre, London: 1979