Bronwyn FitzSimons(1944-2016)
- Actress
Bronwyn Brigid FitzSimons's only child, a son, Conor Beau FitzSimons (also known as "C. Beau FitzSimons), an Irish-American hairdresser who has his own line of hair care products called "The Red Collection" (honoring his famous grandmother, Maureen O'Hara). Bronwyn was named after the character played by Anna Lee, her mother's co-star, in How Green Was My Valley (1941). She adopted her mother's maiden name, FitzSimons, as her legal surname.
Maureen O'Hara helped get her daughter started in movies with her cameo in Spencer's Mountain (1963), she showed great talent for a movie career and her mother encouraged her, but she soon dropped out of films to be a mother. Before motherhood, she made frequent appearances on television in such shows as The Virginian (1962) and McHale's Navy (1962), and also had a part in The Ravagers (1965).
Maureen O'Hara helped get her daughter started in movies with her cameo in Spencer's Mountain (1963), she showed great talent for a movie career and her mother encouraged her, but she soon dropped out of films to be a mother. Before motherhood, she made frequent appearances on television in such shows as The Virginian (1962) and McHale's Navy (1962), and also had a part in The Ravagers (1965).
