Jane Lapotaire

Actor Dec 26 (died age 81) Ipswitch, Suffolk, UK 1956–2023 (67 year career)

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Biography

Jane Elizabeth Marie Lapotaire (née Burgess; 26 December 1944 – 5 March 2026) was an English actress from Suffolk.

Known For

Film

Rebecca

Granny

Film

Performance.

Mrs. Farrell (uncredited)

Film

There's Only One Jimmy Grimble

Alice Brewer

Film

Lady Jane

Princess Mary

Film

Shooting Fish

Dylan's Headmistress

Film

Arabian Nights

Miriam

Film

Surviving Picasso

Olga Picasso

Film

The Asphyx

Christina Cunningham

Filmography

Acting (77)

Movies (36)

Smyrna

as Filio Williams

Rebecca

as Granny

RSC Live: Henry V

as Queen Isobel

RSC Live: Richard II

2013

as Duchess of Gloucester

7.5

Lucan

2013

as Susan Maxwell-Scott

6.0

Windsor Castle: After the Fire

2011

as Narrator

Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes

2006

as Ernestine Carter

2.0

Can't Stop Breathing

2004

as Daisy

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

2004

as Edith Piaf (segment "Piaf")

8.0

Bella and the Boys

2004

as Mrs. Rogers

5.0

There's Only One Jimmy Grimble

2000

as Alice Brewer

6.8

Shooting Fish

1997

as Dylan's Headmistress

Surviving Picasso

as Olga Picasso

Giving Tongue

as Hilda Jacob

Circles Of Deceit

as Helen

Murder on the Moon

1989

as Louise Mackey

3.8

The Master Builder

1988

as Aline Solness

The Dark Angel

1987

as Madame de la Rougierre

Lady Jane

as Princess Mary

To Catch a King

as Irene Neumann

Piaf

as Édith Piaf

Eureka

as Helen McCann

Macbeth

as Lady Macbeth

The Captain's Doll

as Evangeline

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1982

as Elisabeth Moulton-Barrett

Antony & Cleopatra

1981

as Cleopatra

6.3

The Search for Alexander the Great

as Olympias

The Other Woman

as Kim

The House of Bernarda Alba

1976

as Magdalena

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

as Miss Prescott

Antony and Cleopatra

as Charmian

The Asphyx

as Christina Cunningham

Stocker's Copper

as Alice Stocker

On Call

as Jean

Performance.

1970

as Mrs. Farrell (uncredited)

6.8

Crescendo

1970

as Lillianne

5.0

Television (41)

The Burning Girls

as Joan Hartman

Dalgliesh

as Lady Lavinia

The Crown

as Princess Alice

Endeavour

as Madame Belasco

Lucan

as Susie Maxwell-Scott

Downton Abbey

as Princess Irina

Eleventh Hour

He Knew He Was Right

as Lady Milborough

He Knew He Was Right

as Lady Milborough

Arabian Nights

as Miriam

Midsomer Murders

as Mary Mohan

McCallum

Ain't Misbehavin'

as Clara Van Trapp

Testament: The Bible in Animation

as Sarah (voice)

Johnny and the Dead

as Sylvia Liberty

The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries

as Elspeth Cost

Love Hurts

The Big Battalions

as Martha Hoyland

Chillers

as Betsey McCullough

The Dark Angel

as Madame de la Rougierre

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as Anouk Khoori

Daytime Live

Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story

as Letizia Bonaparte

Casualty

as Eileen Jarvis

Seal Morning

as Miriam Spencer

Screen Two

as Helen

Playing Shakespeare

The Search for Alexander the Great

1981

as Olympias

The Devil's Crown

1978

as Eleanor of Aquitaine

Marie Curie

as Marie Curie

Edward the Seventh

as Princess Dagmar

Oranges and Lemons

as Anne Sewell

Crown Court

as Juliet Tomlin

Van der Valk

The Edwardians

as Alice Hoatson

The Sextet

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

as Emily Shaw

Jason King

Play for Today

as Kim

Callan

Armchair Theatre

as Jean