- Born
- Birth nameCherie Mary Lunghi
- Height5′ 5¾″ (1.67 m)
- Cherie Lunghi was born on April 4, 1952 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Excalibur (1981), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) and The Mission (1986). She was previously married to Ralph Lawson.
- SpouseRalph Lawson(1975 - 1976) (divorced)
- Children
- Natural brunette hair
- Classic beauty.
- Brought up by her English mother and aunts in West London, after her Italian father abandoned the family.
- Leading ingénue at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 70s (Perdita, Cordelia, Viola), then left to portray Guinevere in Excalibur (1981) and pursue a film career.
- Although she played Kenneth Branagh's mother in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), she is only eight years his senior in real life. They had played a romantic couple in The Lady's Not for Burning (1987).
- Cherie played Hedvig in The Wild Duck and Alice in Alice in Wonderland on BBC radio while still a pupil at the Arts Educational School in Hyde Park.
- Has one daughter with film director Roland Joffé, Nathalie Lunghi (full name Nathalie Kathleen Lunghi-Joffé), born 26 August 1986.
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