 Daughter of producer Sir Michael Balcon, wife of the poet Cecil Day-Lewis, and mother of actor Daniel Day-Lewis, RADA-trained Jill Balcon (born in London on 30 January 1925) worked in repertory and as a BBC announcer before entering films as Madeleine Bray in Nicholas Nickleby (d. Alberto Cavalcanti, 1947). She scrapped memorably with Jean Kent in Good-Time Girl (d. David Macdonald, 1947), but after three more small roles was away from films until two '90s appearances for Derek Jarman - in Edward II (1991) and Wittgenstein (1993) - and as Lady Bracknell in the play-within-the-film in An Ideal Husband (UK/US, d. Oliver Parker, 1999). Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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