- Born
- Died
- Birth nameDorothy Annie Todd
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Ann Todd was a beautiful English actress best known as Gregory Peck's wife in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947). Her third husband was the legendary director David Lean, for whom she appeared in three films, The Passionate Friends (1949), Madeleine (1950), and The Sound Barrier (1952).
- IMDb mini biography by: Jon C. Hopwood
- SpousesDavid Lean(May 21, 1949 - July 15, 1957) (divorced)Nigel Tangye(October 27, 1939 - March 12, 1949) (divorced, 1 child)Victor Neill Malcolm(December 6, 1933 - 193?) (divorced, 1 child)
- In the late 1950s she embarked on a secondary career as a writer and maker of travel documentaries.
- After her marriage to director David Lean in 1949, she acted in three of his films.
- Her first husband, Victor Malcolm, was the grandson of Lily Langtry; they had a son, David, together.
- Her second husband, Nigel Tangye and her third husband David Lean were first cousins. She and Nigel Tangye had a daughter Ann Francesca together.
- She named her daughter "Ann Francesca". Francesca was her characters name in one of her most famous roles in The Seventh Veil (1945).
- I don't really consider myself an actress. I don't think I ever act. The parts I have played in my career that have come off best have usually been a continuation of myself.
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