Virginia McKenna
(1931-), Actress and writerDame Virginia Anne McKenna
Sitter in 12 portraits
Stage and screen actress. In the 1950s films included The Cruel Sea (1953), A Town Like Alice (1956) and Carve Her Name with Pride (1958). First married to Denholm Elliott (1954-6) she co-starred with her second husband Bill Travers in The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957), Born Free (1966) and Ring of Bright Water (1969). Their Born Free Foundation campaigns for threatened wild animals.
by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print on tissue and card mount, 1953
NPG x34860
by Anthony Buckley
modern bromide print from original negative, 1953
NPG x76052
by Norman Parkinson
bromide print, 1953
NPG x30113
by Anthony Buckley
modern bromide print from original negative, 1954
NPG x76098
Virginia McKenna and Dame Margaret Rutherford at the Women of the Year Luncheon
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 29 September 1959
NPG x198467
by Norman Parkinson
cibachrome print, 11 December 1985
NPG x126889
by Norman Parkinson
bromide fibre print, 11 December 1985
NPG x126895
by Bryan Adams
chromogenic print, 21 February 2008
NPG x131981
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