Cathryn Harrison

Cathryn Harrison

​Cathryn Mary Lee Harrison (born 29 May 1959) was an English actress. Cathryn was baptised on 27 September 1959 at St.John's Church,Hampstead,London,England. She is the daughter of the actor and singer Noel Harrison and Sara Lee Eberts and also the grand daughter of legendary actor Sir Rex Harrison.Her brother Simon Harrison is also an actor as well as her sister Harriet Harrison. She has a brother Will and a sister Chloe from her father's second marriage, and an older sister Zoe from her mother's first marriage to Carleton John Richard Tufnell. In May 1996 she married Paul Laing the son of Ronald David Laing and uses that name since then. Her most notable performances include Lily in Black Moon as well as many made-for-television movies including Portrait of a Marriage where she plays Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville West's lesbian lover. She began her career in Robert Altman's Images and after two decades of low roles, started a career in British television and radio dramas. She appeared in Love on a Branch Line and an 1977 Australian film called Blue Fire Lady. She also appeared as Major Tom Cadman's wife in the ITV series Soldier Soldier, and played wardrobe assistant Irenie in the film version of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser. She died in 2018.

  • Title: Cathryn Harrison
  • Popularity: 4.263
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1959-05-25
  • Place of Birth: Marylebone, London, England
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Cathryn Harrison Movies

  • 1975
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    Black Moon

    Black Moon

    6.1 1975 HD

    There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange...

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  • 1987
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    Empire State

    Empire State

    5.1 1987 HD

    In the docklands of East London stands the Empire State, a nightclub full of magic and mystery. Designed like an ocean liner, it's become a battle...

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  • 1981
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    The Telephone

    The Telephone

    1 1981 HD

    A young woman enacts an imaginative revenge on her boyfriend for playing away. Director Chris Petit made this three-minute short to test a new super...

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  • 1972
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    Images

    Images

    6.841 1972 HD

    While holidaying in Ireland, a pregnant children's author finds her mental state becoming increasingly unstable, resulting in paranoia,...

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  • 1976
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    The Witches of Pendle

    The Witches of Pendle

    1 1976 HD

    A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.

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  • 1977
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    Blue Fire Lady

    Blue Fire Lady

    6.5 1977 HD

    Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her father's frustrations towards Jenny and her desires to...

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  • 1987
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    The Happy Valley

    The Happy Valley

    6.8 1987 HD

    In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. ...

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  • 1987
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    Eat the Rich

    Eat the Rich

    6 1987 HD

    Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper...

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  • 1983
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    The Dresser

    The Dresser

    6.7 1983 HD

    In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He...

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  • 1984
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    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    7.4 1984 HD

    Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...

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  • 1986
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    Duet for One

    Duet for One

    5.8 1986 HD

    When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves her for another...

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  • 1972
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    The Pied Piper

    The Pied Piper

    5.9 1972 HD

    Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's...

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  • 1988
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    A Handful of Dust

    A Handful of Dust

    6.1 1988 HD

    English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance...

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  • 1978
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    Liza

    Liza

    1 1978 HD

    Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and joins the group of admirers of his beautiful young cousin Liza.

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  • 1994
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    Wycliffe

    Wycliffe

    6 1994 HD

    Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. It was produced by HTV and...

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  • 1984
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    Robin of Sherwood

    Robin of Sherwood

    7.6 1984 HD

    Robin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in...

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  • 1988
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    Hannay

    Hannay

    5 1988 HD

    Hannay was a 1988 spin-off from the 1978 film version of John Buchan's novel The Thirty-Nine Steps which had starred Robert Powell as Richard...

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  • 1994
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    Love on a Branch Line

    Love on a Branch Line

    5 1994 HD

    Love on a Branch Line is a British television adaptation of the 1959 novel Love on a Branch Line by John Hadfield. It was broadcast in 1994 airing on...

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  • 1991
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    Clarissa

    Clarissa

    4.6 1991 HD

    Clarissa is a 1991 British period drama television miniseries starring Sean Bean, Saskia Wickham and Lynsey Baxter. It aired on the BBC in three...

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  • 1997
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    Original Sin

    Original Sin

    7 1997 HD

    Commander Adam Dalgliesh is consulted by one of his literary heroes when Peverell Press staff fall victim to a rash of hate mail. When the body of an...

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  • 1989
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    Agatha Christie's Poirot

    Agatha Christie's Poirot

    8.1 1989 HD

    From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule...

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  • 1990
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    Portrait of a Marriage

    Portrait of a Marriage

    6.1 1990 HD

    The remarkable true story of Edwardian writer Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson.

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  • 1978
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    Return of the Saint

    Return of the Saint

    7 1978 HD

    Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

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  • 1997
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    McCallum

    McCallum

    7.3 1997 HD

    McCallum is a British television series that was produced by STV Productions. Dr Iain McCallum was the original lead character, played by John...

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  • 1982
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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    7 1982 HD

    Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he...

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  • 1981
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    Bergerac

    Bergerac

    6.4 1981 HD

    Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars...

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  • 1978
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    Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    5 1978 HD

    A five-part adapation of the infamous book, which stars Ken Hutchison and Kay Adshead as tortured lovers Heathcliff and Cathy.

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  • 1991
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    Soldier Soldier

    Soldier Soldier

    6.4 1991 HD

    The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.

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