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Penelope Keith dies. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a Computer. Penelope Keith dies
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  Dame Penelope Anne Constance Keith was an English actress active
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  in film, radio, stage and television, where she was also
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  a presenter. Keith was primarily known for her roles in
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  the British sitcoms The Good Life and To the Manor Born.
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  She succeeded Lawrence Olivier as President of the Actors Benevolent
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  Fund after his death in nineteen eighty nine, and was
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  appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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  in the twenty fourteen New Year Honors for services to
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  the arts and to charity. Keith joined the Royal Shakespeare
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  Company in nineteen sixty three and went on to win
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  the nineteen seventy six Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance
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  for the play Donkeys Years. She became a household name
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  in the UK playing Margo Ledbetter in The Good Life,
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  winning the nineteen seventy seven Bafter TV Award for Best
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  Light Entertainment Performance. In nineteen seventy eight, Keith won the
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  Bafter TV Award for Best Actress for The Norman Conquests.
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  She then starred as Audrey Forbes Hamilton Into the Manor Born,
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  a series that attracted audiences of more than twenty million.
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  Keith went on to star in another six sitcoms, including
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  Executive Stress, No Job for a Lady and Next of Kin.
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  From two thousand she worked in the theater, with roles
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  including Madame Marcrti in Blive Spirit and Lady Bracknell in
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  the Importance of Being Earnest. Starting in twenty fourteen, she
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  presented several successful series of documentaries about traditional English villagers,
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  and this genteel role continued until her final year, with
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  the series Saving Country Houses. That's it for now. See
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  the episode notes for Wikipedia sources and licensing. Thank you.