
Acting
Community Rating
5.9
TMDB estimate
Born
November 27, 1903
Died
November 15, 1988 (age 84)
Born in
Solihull, Warwickshire, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mona Lee Washbourne (27 November 1903 – 15 November 1988) was an English actress of stage, film, and television. Her most critically acclaimed role was in the film Stevie (1978), late in her career, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award. Mona Washbourne was born in Solihull, Warwickshire and began her entertaining career training as a concert pianist. In 1948, after several years acting professionally on stage, and numerous stage musical performances, she began appearing in films. Her film credits include the horror movie The Brides of Dracula (1960), Billy Liar (1963), and The Collector (1965). She is probably best known to American audiences for her role as housekeeper Mrs. Pearce in My Fair Lady (1964). She also appeared as the stern and caustic Mrs. Bramson in the remake of Night Must Fall (also 1964), and the matron in the film If.... (1968). She appeared at both the Royal Court Theatre in London and on Broadway in 1970 in David Storey's Home. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. In 1975 she appeared on the West End stage with James Stewart in a revival of Mary Chase's play Harvey, in the role originally taken by Josephine Hull. Washbourne won the 1981 New York Film Critics' Circle Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Stevie (1978). In 1981 Washbourne appeared in Granada Television's TV miniseries adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited as Nanny Hawkins. One of her last television appearances was in Where's the Key? (1983), a BBC play about Alzheimer's disease. Mona Washbourne was married to actor Basil Dignam (1905-1979), whom she wed in 1940. She died in 1988, aged 84, in London.

December Flower
as Mary Grey
1984

Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
as Queen Mother
1982

Pygmalion
as Mrs. Pearce
1981

Brideshead Revisited
as Nanny Hawkins
1981

Shillingbury Tales
as Marjorie Cavendish
1981

Therese Raquin
as Madame Raquin
1980

The London Connection
as Aunt Lydia
1979

Stevie
as Aunt
1978

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
as Ethel Duckworth
1977

The Blue Bird
as Grandmother
1976

The Old Curiosity Shop
as Mrs. Jarley
1975

Identikit
as Mrs. Helen Fiedke
1974

Centre Play
as Hilda
1973

O Lucky Man!
as Neighbour / Usher / Sister Hallett
1973
I Spy a Stranger
as Mrs. Hudson
1972

What Became of Jack and Jill?
as Gran Alice Tallent
1972

Home
as Kathleen
1972

Play for Today
1970
Poor Mother
as Sister
1970

Fragment of Fear
as Mrs. Gray
1970