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Valerie Jill Haworth (15 August 1945 – 3 January 2011) was an English actress.
She was born in Hove in the southern English county of Sussex,
to a textile magnate father and a mother who trained as a ballet dancer.
She took ballet lessons at the Sadler's Wells Ballet School to escape from an unhappy home
when her parents separated in 1953. Later she attended the Corona Stage School.
Her first film appearance was in the remake of The 39 Steps (1959), directed by Ralph Thomas,
when she had a non-speaking part as a schoolgirl.
Next she played another schoolgirl in The Brides of Dracula (1960), directed by Terence Fisher.
She died of natural causes at the age of 65 on 3 January 2011 in Manhattan.
She was laid to rest in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester County, New York.
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