Margaret Leighton: Margaret Leighton. Actress: The Go-Between. Tall, reedy, thin-browed, light-haired British award-winning theatre actress Margaret Leighton was born in Worchestershire, England, on February 26, 1922, the daughter of a businessman. Expressing an early desire to act, she quit school at age 15 and auditioned and joined Sir Barry Jackson's Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Becoming one of his star students, he hired her as a stage manager and offered her the small role...
Known For: The Go-Between (Mrs. Maudsley), The Loved One (Mrs. Kenton), The Winslow Boy (Catherine Winslow), The Fighting Pimpernel (Marguerite Blakeney)