| Lynne Frederick | |
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| Born | Lynne Maria Frederick 25 July 1954 Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK |
| Died | 27 April 1994 (aged 39) Los Angeles, California |
| Spouse(s) | Peter Sellers (1977-1980) David Frost (1981-1982) Barry Unger (1982-1991) 1 child |
Lynne Maria Frederick (25 July 1954 – 27 April 1994) was an English actress.
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She came into show business beautiful and youthful with big green eyes and long brown hair at the age of 14½. She got her debut role as Mary in the 1970 film No Blade of Grass. Her most well know film appearance came in the 1971 classic film Nicholas and Alexandra playing Tsars Daughter Tatiana Romanov. Her next film was Henry VIII and His Six Wives where she played the Queen of England Catharine Howard. Her next role came in the 1972 in the children’s classic The Amazing Mr. Blunden. In 1973 she won Most Promising Newcomer – Actress of 1973. She continued into making films. In 1975 she got the role in the Old Spanish Romantic film A Long Return. She continued a successful carrier in films throughout the 70’s. Her last role came in the film The Prisoner of Zenda in 1979 where she worked with her husband Peter Sellers.
Frederick was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, the daughter of Andrew and Iris Frederick. She was married three times, to:
Though Sellers and Frederick had come to a financial agreement in their divorce and the actor was in the process of excluding her from his will a week before he died of a heart attack in 1980, she inherited almost his entire estate worth an estimated £4.5 million because the divorce decree had not been finalized. When Frederick died, her mother Iris inherited everything, including all of the income and royalties from Sellers' work. Upon Iris' death, the estate reverted to Cassie Unger, Frederick's daughter by a later marriage.[1] By contrast, Sellers left his two children by actress Anne Howe £750 each; the same amount was left to his daughter, Victoria, by his former wife actress Britt Ekland.
Frederick won nearly $1.5 million in a lawsuit against the makers of the Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), made after Sellers' death, claiming the film tarnished her late husband's memory.
She remarried twice and had a daughter in 1984. She suffered from severe depression due to the death of her first husband Peter Sellers and attempted suicide numerous times. She gained weight and abused drugs which lead to her death in 1994 at the age of 39. It was believed that she died of alcoholism but her mother reported that she died of a seizure in her sleep. Lynne was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in London. In 2009, three fan pages were launched online to mourn her death and celebrate her life.
  | "Tribute to Lynne Frederick" (site in English and French) - "Tribute to Lynne Frederick" |
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