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Help me identify a famous person!

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Asiama · 08/08/2019 19:33

Today I saw someone and thought "hold on, I know you..." and then I realised, she's a TV actress. Except I don't know her name and can't place what I've seen her in, and it's driving me mad! Can you help me? She looked like a slightly older version of the attached picture, maybe late 40s or 50s, tall and slim.

Please put me out of my misery!

OP posts:

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weaselwords · 08/08/2019 23:54

Nicole Kidman?

LiveatCityHall · 08/08/2019 23:54

Has anyone mentioned Fiona Shaw??

EllenEyewater · 08/08/2019 23:54

Not an actress, but Fiona Bruce?

snappedandsharted · 08/08/2019 23:56

Serena Gordon?

snappedandsharted · 08/08/2019 23:57

Have we had Samantha Bond?

EllenEyewater · 09/08/2019 00:00

Nancy Carroll?

MrsDimmond · 09/08/2019 00:00

This is so weird - not only am I completely invested, I am still convinced it's Haydn Gwynne despite (quite obviously) not having seen this woman!!
How does she differ from HG?

Everhopeful1 · 09/08/2019 00:00

Samantha Bond...

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 09/08/2019 00:00

Sylvestra Le Touzel

Original poster

Asiama · 09/08/2019 00:02

IT'S SAMANTHA BOND!!!

OP posts:

KayDog · 09/08/2019 00:03

Lynn Redgrave?
Shirley McLaine?
Louise Jameson (Bergerac actress)

KayDog · 09/08/2019 00:03

Crosspost, mystery solved then OP!

MrsDimmond · 09/08/2019 00:05

Yay! We can go to bed happy!

RageAgainstTheVendingMachine · 09/08/2019 00:05

Thank God for that. I would have been going for Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie next! Well done snapped

Everhopeful1 · 09/08/2019 00:05

Brill - stand down everyone !

TheOldestCat · 09/08/2019 00:06

Hooray!

midsomermurders.fandom.com/wiki/Kate_Cameron

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Asiama · 09/08/2019 00:06

Well done @snappedandsharted! And thank you all so much for helping me! I want to say I can go to sleep now but I'm experiencing such an adrenaline rush, I don't think I can sleep just yet

OP posts:

CroqueMademoiselle · 09/08/2019 00:07

Thank Christ.

Goodnight all

JaimeBronde · 09/08/2019 00:07

Elizabeth McGovern? She was Cora Crawley the Countess of Grantham in Downton.

JaimeBronde · 09/08/2019 00:08

X post as started typing before you posted it was Samantha Bond.

JaimeBronde · 09/08/2019 00:09

Mid post I wandered off to make a coffee

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 09/08/2019 00:11

So glad you solved it, OP.

For some reason, all of the people insisting "No, it IS Christina Hendricks!!!" remind me of when I was very young and watching Crimewatch with my parents.

Until my DF gently explained why it wasn't a good idea, I was dead set on calling in with some information that I was certain would provide a valuable lead and maybe help them solve the case - the registration number of the car that they used in their televised reconstruction video

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 09/08/2019 00:11

Would that be the same Samantha Bond that banana first suggested at 8.26pm? JFC, I’ve got to get up at six! (Wanders off muttering...)

fairydustandpixies · 09/08/2019 00:12

Johnny Depp??!!

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 09/08/2019 00:13

Everybody has been in Midsomer Murders...

Sophie Thompson?

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