Avril Elgar: Avril Elgar. Actress: Wilde. Diminutive, sharp-featured English character actress, one of two daughters born Avril Williams at military barracks in West Yorkshire to an army officer and subsequent teacher. On stage in amateur dramatics from 1949, she was trained at the Old Vic school in London and made her debut at the Royal Court Theater eleven years later as the second witch in Macbeth. By that time, she had adopted...
Known For: Wilde (Lady Bracknell), The Stars Look Down (Martha Fenwick), Carrie's War (Lou Evans), A Picture of Katherine Mansfield (Constantia)