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- Birth nameAgnes Bernauer
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Agnes Bernelle was born on March 7, 1923 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress and writer, known for The Good Companions (1957), An Awfully Big Adventure (1995) and Still Life (1999). She was married to Desmond Leslie. She died on February 15, 1999 in Dublin, Ireland.
- SpouseDesmond Leslie(August 18, 1945 - 1969) (divorced, 3 children)
- Her one-woman show of songs by Kurt Weil and Bertolt Brecht was savaged by British TV critic Bernard Levin. Levin was attacked for his remarks by her husband, Desmond Leslie, during a live broadcast of That Was the Week That Was (1962).
- Her father was director Rudolph Bernauer.
- Became notorious as the first non-stationary nude in English theatre.
- She spent the later years of her life with her second partner, the historian and author Maurice Craig, in Sandymount, County Dublin.
- She was a Berlin-born expatriate actress and singer, who lived in England for many years, then in Ireland.
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