Anna Raymond Massey (August 11, 1937 – July 3, 2011) was an English actress.
Ms. Massey was born into a prominent acting family: her father was the Canadian actor Raymond Massey, her mother was the British actress Adrianne Allen, and her brother Daniel also became an actor. She made her West End stage debut at 17 in “The Reluctant Debutante” (a performance that earned her a Tony nomination when the play moved to Broadway in 1956) and her film debut in ”Gideon’s Day,” a 1958 police procedural directed by John Ford, who was her godfather.
In 1960, she played a potential murder victim in Michael Powell's cult thriller Peeping Tom; she then appeared in Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake is Missing (1965) opposite Laurence Olivier and later played the role of the cockney barmaid Babs in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972). She appeared with her brother Daniel playing deadly siblings in the 1973 horror film The Vault of Horror.
More recently, Massey could be spotted supporting Christian Bale in The Machinist, Gwyneth Paltrow in Possession, Colin Firth in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Elijah Wood in The Oxford Murders.
She is survived by her son, grandson and second husband.
(Sources: AP London, NY Times, Wiki)
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