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20.10.2023 - 15:31 / deadline.com
Actress Haydn Gwynne died today following a recent cancer diagnosis. She was 66.
Her representatives confirmed the news Friday with a statement handed to multiple news outlets. The statement said Gwynne died in hospital “in the small hours of Friday, October 20, surrounded by her beloved sons, close family, and friends.”
“We would like to thank the staff and teams at the Royal Marsden and Brompton hospitals for their wonderful care over the last few weeks,” the statement added.
Born in Sussex, England, Gwynne studied Modern Languages at the University of Warwick before taking a five-year lectureship in Italy, where she taught English. She became an actress in her mid-twenties and first came to notice on television as starring in the David Lodge campus comedy/drama Nice Work (1989) before joining the comedy series Drop the Dead Donkey (1990), for which she earned a BAFTA TV nomination in 1992.
Some of her other small screen credits included Peak Practice, Merseybeat, and the HBO/BBC historical series Rome. Gwynne also briefly portrayed former royal aide Lady Susan Hussey, who resigned from the royal household following a racism row, in the fifth series of Netflix’s The Crown.
Alongside her work on the small screen, Gwynne had a celebrated career on stage, receiving four Olivier Award nominations for her performance in the West End productions of City Of Angels, Billy Elliot The Musical, The Threepenny Opera, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. She was also nominated for the Best Performance for a Featured Actress in a Musical Tony Award for Billy Elliot on Broadway in 2009.
Gwynne’s other prominent West End roles included Margaret Thatcher in The Crown creator Peter Morgan’s 2013 production The Audience.
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The Windsors and The Crown, has died aged 66.Her agent confirmed that she passed away in hospital on Friday (October 20), after receiving a cancer diagnosis a month earlier.Gwynne, who played Camilla in the Channel 4 royal parody The Windsors, and Lady Susan Hussey in Season 5 of Netflix drama The Crown, also had a celebrated career on stage, receiving Tony and Olivier Award nominations.From "Billy Elliott" onstage to "The Windsors" and so much more onscreen, Haydn Gwynne was a total original. Every performance was matchless.
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to the BBC, her agent said, “It is with great sadness we are sharing with you that, following her recent diagnosis with cancer, the star of stage and screen Haydn Gwynne died in hospital in the small hours of Friday 20 October, surrounded by her beloved sons, close family and friends. We would like to thank the staff and teams at the Royal Marsden and Brompton Hospitals for their wonderful care over the last few weeks.”Born in West Sussex, England, Gwynne rose to prominence in the 1980s with the drama “Nice Work” before going on to star in other British series including “Peak Practice,” “Merseybeat” “Sherlock” and the BBC series “Rome.”In her career, she played a wide range of notable public figures, including Queen Camilla and Margaret Thatcher.
K.J. Yossman Haydn Gwynne, a stage and screen actor who starred in royal comedy “The Windsors” and also appeared in “The Crown,” died on Friday of cancer, the BBC reports.
Haydn Gwynne, an actress known for her work in royal projects including Netflix’s hit series The Crown, has sadly passed away at the age of 66.
Actress Haydn Gwynne has died aged 66 following a recent cancer diagnosis.
Actress Haydn Gwynne, known for her roles in Drop the Dead Donkey, The Crown and The Windsors, has died aged 66. Her death was confirmed in a statement shared by her representatives on Friday 20 October.The statement read: “It is with great sadness we are sharing with you that, following her recent diagnosis with cancer, the star of stage and screen Haydn Gwynne died in hospital in the small hours of Friday 20 October, surrounded by her beloved sons, close family and friends. “We would like to thank the staff and teams at the Royal Marsden and Brompton Hospitals for their wonderful care over the last few weeks.” Haydn was due to return to the West End in September in the new production of Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, but pulled out earlier in the month due to "sudden personal circumstances".