Nova Pilbeam Biography

Fast Facts

• Won the Film Weekly medal for best performance in a British film for "Tudor Rose" in 1936
• After the death of her first husband, Pen Tennyson, great-grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, she married BBC journalist Alexander Whyte and had a daughter named Sara
• Began her acting career on stage, playing Ellen Brown in a 1932 production of "Gallows Glorious․"
• Made her screen acting debut in the film "Little Friend" in 1934 at the age of 14
• Best known for playing Erica Burgoyne in "Young and Innocent" and Betty Lawrence in "The Man Who Knew Too Much․"
• Was one of the actresses considered to play Mrs․ de Winter in Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 adaptation of "Rebecca․"