Adrienne Corri

Biography: life and films

Adrienne Corri is a Scottish-Italian actress who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 13th November 1930. Her father Luigi Riccoboni was an Italian who ran a hotel in Perthshire. In a career spanning five decades the auburn-haired Corri appeared on film and television in over a hundred roles. In a wide repertoire of mostly supporting roles she showed a remarkable dramatic range and brought immense depth and realism to all of her performances. She is best known for playing a character who is humorously assaulted and raped by Malcolm McDowell in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). Other notable film appearances are in Jean Renoir's The River (1951), David Lean's Dr Zhivago (1965) and Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965). A frequent habituée of the horror genre, Corri appeared in A Study in Terror (1965), Vampire Circus (1972) and Madhouse (1974). She also had a busy television career and appeared in several popular shows including Danger Man (1965), A Family at War (1971), You're Only Young Twice (1971) and Doctor Who (1980). Her stage career was no less prolific and included appearances in many prestigious stage productions, both in London and the provinces. Adrienne Corri also had talent as a writer and published a book entitled The Search for Gainsborough. She died from heart disease at her London home on 13th March 2016, aged 85.

Filmography