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- Birth nameCoral Edith Brown
- Australian actress who worked primarily in Britain and specialized in superior, upper-crust sorts. Browne began her stage career in Melbourne but moved to England at the age of 21 and quickly brightened the West End with her sharp delivery and stylish sense of comedy. Her film appearances were sporadic, though she made several pictures memorable with her presence, particularly The Ruling Class (1972) as the libidinous Lady Claire.
While touring the Soviet Union in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of "Hamlet, " Browne encountered the expatriate British spy Guy Burgess, and this bizarre meeting became the basis of the television film An Englishman Abroad (1983), for which Browne won the BAFTA Best Actress award for playing herself. She met Vincent Price when they co-starred in Theater of Blood (1973), and married him in 1974. He was at her side when she died at 77 following a long struggle with breast cancer.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
- SpousesVincent Price(October 24, 1974 - May 29, 1991) (her death)Philip Pearman(June 26, 1950 - October 13, 1964) (his death)
- Became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1987.
- Stepmother of Victoria Price and Vincent Price Jr.
- Having acted with Wilfrid Hyde-White as one of the "Heavenly Voices" in Xanadu (1980), they died within weeks of each other, May 1991.
- She was once engaged to Jack Buchanan. Ironically, Philip Pearman, whom she married, was once Buchanan's understudy.
- She was awarded the 1977 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Performance in a Supporting Role for "The Importance of Being Earnest" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
- "I could never understand what Godfrey Tearle saw in Jill Bennett, until I saw her at the Caprice eating corn-on-the-cob".
- "I married Vincent Price very late in both our lives. It was chiefly because, even if Vincent can be a bit moody and frightening at times, loneliness is even more frightful. Without a husband, even an actress doesn't get invited out much".
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