Joanna Dunham Biography

Fast Facts

• Studied stage design and painting at the Slade School of Art with the likes of Thomas Monnington and Lucian Freud
• Made her screen acting debut in the TV series "BBC Sunday-Night Theatre" in 1958
• Made her professional debut at the Liverpool Playhouse in a 1958 production of "The Deserters" and her London debut two years later in "Visit to a Small Planet․"
• After her acting career ended, she worked on and exhibited her landscape and still life paintings, showing them at the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
• Best known for her role as Mary Magdalene in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" and as Alice Hillyer in "The House That Dripped Blood․"
• Had recurring roles as Arlette van der Valk in "Van der Valk," as Sylvia Harper in "The Outsider," and as Petty Officer Joan Bottomley in "Then Churchill Said to Me․"
• Was recommended for her role in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" by Marilyn Monroe, who had seen her in a production of "Romeo and Juliet" in New York in 1962