 Rightly described in Picturegoer (1953) as having 'no nice-little-girl-next-door nonsense about her', the red-haired, sinuous, RADA-trained Corri was born in Edinburgh on 13 November 1931, on stage from 1948, had a screen bit in The Romantic Age (d. Edmond T. Gréville, 1949) and starred in her next, Jean Renoir's The River (US, 1951). A cinema not notably stocked with sexy leading ladies might have made better use of her, but she made the most of what came her way: the frustrated daughter in The Kidnappers (d. Philip Leacock, 1953), the pianist daughter in Lease of Life (d. Charles Frend, 1954), a seductress in the neat B movie, The Big Chance (d. Peter Graham Scott, 1957), and the raped Mrs Alexander in A Clockwork Orange (d. Stanley Kubrick, 1971), among thirty-odd others, including international epics such as Quo Vadis (US, d. Mervyn LeRoy, 1951) and Dr Zhivago (UK/US, d. David Lean, 1965). She was married to Daniel Massey (1961-67). Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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