Cathryn Harrison

Born: 1959-05-25

​Cathryn Mary Lee Harrison (born 29 May 1959) was an English actress. Cathryn was baptised on 27 September 1959 at St.John's Church,Hampstead,London,England. She is the daughter of the actor and singer Noel Harrison and Sara Lee Eberts and also the grand daughter of legendary actor Sir Rex Harrison.Her brother Simon Harrison is also an actor as well as her sister Harriet Harrison. She has a brother Will and a sister Chloe from her father's second marriage, and an older sister Zoe from her mother's first marriage to Carleton John Richard Tufnell. In May 1996 she married Paul Laing the son of Ronald David Laing and uses that name since then. Her most notable performances include Lily in Black Moon as well as many made-for-television movies including Portrait of a Marriage where she plays Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville West's lesbian lover. She began her career in Robert Altman's Images and after two decades of low roles, started a career in British television and radio dramas. She appeared in Love on a Branch Line and an 1977 Australian film called Blue Fire Lady. She also appeared as Major Tom Cadman's wife in the ITV series Soldier Soldier, and played wardrobe assistant Irenie in the film version of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser. She died in 2018.


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A Christmas Carol

as Kate
Released: 1984-10-09

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own...

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Black Moon

as Lily
Released: 1975-09-24

There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this...

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Images

as Susannah
Released: 1972-12-18

While holidaying in Ireland, a pregnant children's author finds her mental state becoming...

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A Handful of Dust

as Milly
Released: 1988-06-24

English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit...

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Eat the Rich

as Joanna
Released: 1987-10-23

Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to...

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The Pied Piper

as Lisa
Released: 1972-12-27

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern...

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Duet for One

as Penny Smallwood
Released: 1986-12-25

When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart....

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The Dresser

as Irene
Released: 1983-12-06

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the...

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The Happy Valley

as Helen Tapsell
Released: 1987-09-06

In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a...

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Empire State

as Marion
Released: 1987-03-01

In the docklands of East London stands the Empire State, a nightclub full of magic and mystery....

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Blue Fire Lady

as Jenny
Released: 1977-12-09

Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her...

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The Witches of Pendle

as Alizon Device
Released: 1976-06-19

A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.

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The Telephone

as uncredited
Released: 1981-01-01

A young woman enacts an imaginative revenge on her boyfriend for playing away. Director Chris...

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Cecily, Lady Horbury
First aired: 1989-01-08

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...

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Bergerac

as Julie Manton
First aired: 1981-10-18

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...

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Robin of Sherwood

as Isadora
First aired: 1984-04-28

Robin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by...

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Return of the Saint

as Sally
First aired: 1978-09-10

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

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Wycliffe

as Jane Hardy
First aired: 1994-07-24

Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective...

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Hannay

as uncredited
First aired: 1988-01-06

Hannay was a 1988 spin-off from the 1978 film version of John Buchan's novel The Thirty-Nine...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-11-07

Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister...

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McCallum

as Claire Best
First aired: 1997-01-13

McCallum is a British television series that was produced by STV Productions. Dr Iain McCallum...

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Portrait of a Marriage

as Violet Keppel
First aired: 1990-09-19

The remarkable true story of Edwardian writer Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson.

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Love on a Branch Line

as Chloe
First aired: 1994-06-12

Love on a Branch Line is a British television adaptation of the 1959 novel Love on a Branch Line...

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Soldier Soldier

as Laura Cadman
First aired: 1991-06-10

The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.

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Wuthering Heights

as Catherine Linton
First aired: 1978-09-24

Wuthering Heights is a 1978 British film adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights,...

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Clarissa

as uncredited
First aired: 1991-11-27

Clarissa is a 1991 British period drama television miniseries starring Sean Bean, Saskia Wickham...

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