Georgina Cookson

Antoinette Georgina Cookson (19 December 1918 – 1 October 2011) was a British film, stage and television actress. She died in Sydney, aged 92, on 1 October 2011.

Family Cookson was the daughter of racing driver Roger Cookson and Sybil Taylor. Her mother, using the pseudonym Sydney Tremayne, was a novelist and contributed to The Tatler. Cookson left Benenden School at the age of 15 to train at RADA. She was the great-granddaughter of the psychiatrist Sir James Crichton-Browne.

She was married four times; she was twice divorced and twice widowed. She had two children, a son and a daughter.

Cookson also worked in radio. A 1945 radio adaptation of the comic strip Jane, produced by the Overseas Recorded Broadcasting Service for British forces overseas, starred Cookson.

Filmography

Film

Television