![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first stage appearance was as Lady Shoreham in a provincial tour of His Wife's Children (1927). I knew immediately that the life I wanted was there." Though her family did not encourage her early ambitions, she spent three years at Rada after leaving school. "I was utterly entranced," she said later, "and asked my parents to move as near to the theatre as possible. She was born in Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire in 1906, and taken to her first pantomime, Cinderella, at the age of five. Refusing to go on the Wogan show, she stated, "I have never been a star, I'm just an old character bag." Hickson had been an actress since the age of 20 and her stage career in particular had been a distinguished one - she had won Broadway's prestigious Tony Award - but it was the television series that made her a household name, though she would never acknowledge that she was famous. ![]()
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