British actress
Life long friend of Lord Olivier. The two met in grade school when She played Petruchio to His Katherine in a reverse gender Taming Of The Shrew.
Older sister Emma was born in 1902.
Daughter of Francis Drake and Annie (Dalton) McGlinchy.
Completed two tours of North America with the Royal Shakespeare Company in her early years.
Made her stage debut at age 9 in "The Fairy Doll". She was 13 when she appeared in a production of Shakespeares "Twelfth Night" along with a 10-year-old actor named Laurence Olivier both playing the leading roles.
Husband Maxwell Turner was a high court judge. She retired for nearly a decade following their 1938 marriage.
Prominent British stage actress (from 1913) whose close to seven-decade reign included a wealth of Shakespearean ladies (Lady Macbeth, Portia, Viola, Helena, Beatrice).
She had one child, a daughter named Deirdre, who was born in March 1940.
She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1987 Queens Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.
