Catherine Lacey
Lacey made her stage debut, performing with Mrs Patrick Campbell, in The Thirteenth Chair at the West Pier Brighton on 13 April 1925.[1] Having acted at Stratford and the Old Vic in 1935/36, she returned to both companies in later years: to the Old Vic in 1951 (Clytemnestra in Electra)[2] and 1962 (Aase in Peer Gynt, Emilia in Othello),[3] and to the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, playing Volumnia in Coriolanus and the Countess of Rousillon in All's Well That Ends Well.[1] She made her film debut in 1938 as the secretive nun who wears high heels in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, in which she was credited as Catherine Lacy.In 1966/67 she played a malevolent fortune-teller in The Mummy's Shroud and Boris Karloff's insane wife in Michael Reeves' The Sorcerers.For the latter, she won a 'Silver Asteroid' award as Best Actress at the Trieste Science Fiction Film Festival in 1968.