Antoinette Cellier, Lady Seton (23 June 1913 – 18 January 1981) was an English film and theatre actress. She appeared in fifteen feature films in the 1930s and 1940s. She was married to soldier and actor Sir Bruce Lovat Seton, 11th Baronet of Abercorn.

Family

She was born Florence Antoinette Glossop Cellier in Broadstairs,

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, England. Her father, Frank Cellier, was a film and theatre actor, and her mother was Florence Glossop-Harris. Her grandparents included Augustus Harris, the actor-manager, and François Cellier, musical director of the Savoy Theatre. Her half-brother Peter Cellier also became a film, television and theatre actor. In 1940, Cellier became the second wife of soldier and actor Sir Bruce Lovat Seton, 11th Baronet of Abercorn (1909–1969). They had a daughter, Lydia Antoinette Gordon Seton (born 14 November 1941). After her husband's death in 1969, his Baronial title passed passed to his cousin Christopher Bruce Seton.

Career

Cellier was trained at the

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in London. She made her stage début in the London's West End in '' Firebird''. Other stage performances included in the ''Day After Tomorrow'' at the

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, '' Quiet Weekend'' at the Playhouse Theatre, ''This Money Business'' at the Ambassadors Theatre, ''Coincidence'' at St Martin’s Theatre, and ''Sixteen'' at the Criterion Theatre. Cellier's first film appearance was in '' Music Hath Charms'' (1935) and she subsequently made fifteen feature films in the 1930s and 1940s.

Filmography

*'' Late Extra'' (1935) *'' Music Hath Charms'' (1935) * '' Royal Cavalcade'' (1935) *'' The Tenth Man'' (1936) *'' Ourselves Alone'' (1936) * '' Death Croons the Blues'' (1937) * '' The Great Barrier'' (1937) *'' The Gables Mystery'' (1938) * '' Lucky to Me'' (1939) *'' I Killed the Count'' (1939) * '' At the Villa Rose'' (1940) *'' Dear Octopus'' (1943) * ''

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'' (1944) * '' Bees in Paradise'' (1944) *'' The End of the River'' (1947)

Death

Cellier died 18 January 1981, age 67, in

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, England.

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* Cellier family 1913 births 1981 deaths Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art English film actresses English stage actresses Actresses from London Actors from Broadstairs Actresses from Kent 20th-century English actresses Wives of baronets {{authority control