Francesca Annis

She also presented children's television programmes.<br /><br /> Annis gained attention for her performance as Lady Macbeth in Roman Polanski's film version of Macbeth (1971) in which she performs the sleepwalking soliloquy in the nude. The critic Kenneth Tynan was present when the scene was shot: Francesca does it very sportingly and with no fuss... though of course the set is closed, great curtains are drawn around the acting area... and the wardrobe mistress rushes to cover Francesca with a dressing gown the instant Roman says, 'Cut'.<br /><br /> Annis continued to be a leading television actress throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, appearing in series such as Edward the Seventh (1975) as Lillie Langtry, a role she reprised in Lillie (1978); Madame Bovary (1975); and Parnell and the Englishwoman (1991), in which she played Kitty O'Shea; as well as the miniseries Reckless (1998) and its 2000 sequel. Read Less