- Born
- Died
- Birth namePatricia Sutcliffe
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Beautiful Marie Devereux was photographed partially nude when she was still a teenager. During the 1950s she became a regular nude model in magazines, but she also had a brief career in films, usually playing sexy girls in comedies, dramas and horror films, a few of which were directed by distinguished filmmakers. After appearing in Terence Young's "Serious Charge", she was seen to good advantage in three Hammer Film productions: first, under the direction of genre master Terence Fisher, she played a follower of goddess Kali in "The Stranglers of Bombay" (1959), and she was one of the "Brides of Dracula" (1960); these were followed in 1962 by John Gilling's "The Pirates of Blood River", in which she played a village girl. She was also in Guy Green's highly praised drama "The Mark (1961), and then traveled to Italy to work as Elizabeth Taylor's stand-in in "Cleopatra" (1963), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Devereux went to Hollywood after the production closed in Rome, and appeared in television and two cult movies directed by Samuel Fuller, "Shock Corridor" (1963) and "The Naked Kiss" (1964). After these roles she decided to marry and have children in the United States, and retired from films.
- IMDb mini biography by: Édgar Soberón Torchia
- In her late teens she danced nude at London's Windmill Theatre.
- Worked for the pinup photographer Harrison Marks for 10.00 pounds per session between 1957 and 1960.
- Following "Cleopatra", Marie could have had a great opportunity in mainstream cinema, probably leading to fame, if "Cassandra's Iliad" had been made. Based on a screenplay by novelist Mario Puzo, the movie was to star Marlon Brando and narrate the classic Homer tale from the perspective of Cassandra, the Trojan sibyl. Marie was meant to play this role, but the film was never made.
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