Name
Virginia Maskell
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1936-02-28
Deathday
1968-01-25 (32 years old)
Place of Birth
Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK
Biography
Virginia Elizabeth Maskell (1936–1968) was an English actress, poet and artist. After attending drama school she featured in several television roles. Her film debut was a minor role for director Roy Boulting in Happy Is the Bride (1957), after which she began switching between the theatre and the screen.
She gained a British Lion contract and appeared in The Man Upstairs (1958) and as an air hostess in Jet Storm (1959). She made an impact on the stage in Ronald Duncan's The Catalyst, a play that initially the Lord Chamberlain's office had found troubling. There were distinguished appearances in live TV drama. She starred in Doctor in Love (1960), and as Peter Sellers's wife in Only Two Can Play (1962). She took a break from acting in 1962 to concentrate on her family, and returned after the birth of her second son to shoot Interlude (1968).
In January of 1968, Maskell was reported missing. Police searched woods 700 feet up in the Chiltern Hills after her car was found a mile from her home. She apparently had wandered through the woods for hours before collapsing. She was taken to hospital and given emergency treatment for an overdose of barbiturates, but passed away the following day at the age of 31.
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- 1960 Doctor in Love as Dr. Nicola Barrington
- 1962 Only Two Can Play as Jean Lewis
- 1958 The Man Upstairs as Helen Grey
- 1960 Suspect as Dr. Lucy Byrne
- 1959 Virgin Island as Tina
- 1968 Interlude as Antonia Zelter
- 1962 The Wild and the Willing as Virginia Chown
- 1958 Happy Is the Bride as Marcia
- 1959 Jet Storm as Pam Leyton
- 1967 The Prisoner ( 1 episode ) as The Woman
- 1965 Gideon's Way ( 1 episode ) as Rose Lemman
- 1956 The Buccaneers ( 1 episode ) as Rebecca Bradbury
- 1955 The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1 episode ) as 'Eve'
- 1955 ITV Play of the Week ( 1 episode )
- 1962 Zero One ( 1 episode )
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode )
- 1964 Thursday Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Celia Coplestone
- 1961 You Can't Win ( 1 episode ) as Elsa Lander
