Chloe Franks (born 1 September 1963) is a British actress, best known for her roles as a child actress in British films during the 1970s. She was born in London, England.
Career
Her most memorable role was as Jane Reid, the young, witchcraft-obsessed daughter of
Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor and singer. In a career spanning more than sixty years, Lee became known as an actor with a deep and commanding voice who often portrayed villains in horr ...
in the
Amicus horror anthology film ''
The House That Dripped Blood'' (1970). She also portrayed Katy Coombs in ''
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
''Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?'' (U.S. title: ''Who Slew Auntie Roo?'') is a 1971 horror-thriller film directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, and Sir Ralph Richardson. Based partly on the fairy tale "Hansel and Gre ...
'' (1971), alongside
Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades. She won Academy Awards for ''The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film), The Diary of Anne Frank'' (1959) and ' ...
, who played Aunt Roo, and
Mark Lester
Mark Lester (born Mark A. Letzer; 11 July 1958) is an English former child actor who starred in a number of British and European films in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1968 he played the title role in the film ''Oliver! (film), Oliver!'', a Musical f ...
, who played her brother, Christopher. Additionally, she appeared as Fredericka Armfeldt, the daughter of Desiree Armfeldt (played by
Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was an English and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 19 ...
) in the Oscar-winning musical ''
A Little Night Music
''A Little Night Music'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the 1955 Ingmar Bergman film '' Smiles of a Summer Night'', it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a ...
''.
Filmography
Film
Television
External links
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Living people
British child actresses
20th-century British actresses
1963 births