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Acting

Anna Massey

Career: Active from 1958 to 2008, busiest in 1986 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 33
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: Peeping Tom
87/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

BAFTA Awards · Best Actress
1987 · Won
Screen Two
Source: Wikidata

Characters

2

The characters Anna Massey played, best-known titles first.

Anna Massey as Miss Laetitia Prism

Anna Massey as Mrs D'Urberville

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 72 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Anna Massey Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.1, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.8, average 2.2
Adrenaline
3.5, average 4.7
Violence
2.9, average 4.1

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 9
Social Commentary 8
Character Study 6
Historical Drama 4
Psychological Thriller 4
Character-Driven Narrative 3
Period Drama 3
Family Secrets 3
Period Piece 3
Coming-of-Age 3
British Humor 2
Situational Humor 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

147

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

29 titles · average score 64

Affinity

53

as Miss Haxby

Lewis

80

TV show · as Prof. Margaret Gold

The Robinsons

46

TV show · as Pam Robinson

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

70

as Mrs. Arbuthnot

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

73

as Old Agatha Christie

The Machinist

68

as Mrs. Shike

The Importance of Being Earnest

63

as Miss Laetitia Prism

An Angel for May

69

as Rosie

Room to Rent

51

as Sarah Stevenson

The Sleeper

69

TV show · as Lillian

The Sleeper

67

as Lillian

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

65

as Gertrude Bell

1990s

31 titles · average score 64

Mad Cows

44

as Dwina Phelps

Captain Jack

66

as Phoebe

Animated World Faiths

TV show · as Marie (voice)

A Respectable Trade

TV show · as Sarah Cole

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Brenda Packard / Honoria Lyddiard

Nash Bridges

44

TV show · as Cindy

Sweet Angel Mine

54

as Megan's Mother

Haunted

68

as Nanny Tess Webb

The Grotesque

46

as Mrs. Giblet

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

75

TV show · as Gertrude Bell

The Darling Buds of May

78

TV show · as Mlle. Antoinette Dupont

The Man from the Pru

as Julia Wallace

1980s

43 titles · average score 62

Agatha Christie's Poirot

83

TV show · as Miss Pebmarsh

Killing Dad

49

as Edith

Tears in the Rain

56

as Lady Emily

A Hazard of Hearts

67

as Eudora

Inspector Morse

80

TV show · as Lady Emily Balcombe

Hotel du Lac

57

as Edith Hope

Sacred Hearts

as Sister Thomas

Anna Karenina

64

as Betsy

The Little Drummer Girl

50

as Chairlady

Mansfield Park

64

TV show · as Mrs Norris

Five Days One Summer

40

as Jennifer Pierce

Sweet William

48

as Edna McClusky

1970s

25 titles · average score 68

Rebecca

78

TV show · as Mrs Danvers

You're Not Watching Me, Mummy

as Jemima

Tales of the Unexpected

72

TV show · as Irene Wrzaszcyzk

The Corn Is Green

68

as Miss Ronberry

The Love of a Good Woman

as Isabella Ridout

TV show · as Paula Bagnold

The Vault of Horror

61

as Donna Rogers (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")

A Doll's House

54

as Kristine Linde

Frenzy

82

as Barbara Jane "Babs" Milligan

A Woman Sobbing

as Jane Pullar

as Rosemary

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Radio Voice

1960s

15 titles · average score 62

De Sade

21

as Renée de Montreuil

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

TV show · as Nora Helmer / Sarah

W. Somerset Maugham

TV show · as Millicent Bannon

David Copperfield

48

as Jane Murdstone

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Mummy / Cynthia Randolph

Bunny Lake Is Missing

78

as Elvira

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Caroline / Tilburina

Jackanory

76

TV show · as Storyteller

A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Titania

TV show · as Rosemary / Ellen Dolan

The Trip to Biarritz

as Marjorie Robertson

Peeping Tom

87

as Helen Stephens

1950s

4 titles · average score 66

Gideon's Day

64

as Sally Gideon

Theatre Night

TV show · as Penelope Shawn

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as June Elliott

ITV Play of the Week

TV show · as Titania / Rain Carter