Antoinette Cellier


Antoinette Cellier, Lady Seton 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, Kent, 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. They had a daughter, Lydia Antoinette Gordon Seton. After her husband's death in 1969, his Baronial title passed to his cousin Christopher Bruce Seton.

Career

Cellier was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 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 Fortune Theatre, 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 and she subsequently made fifteen feature films in the 1930s and 1940s.

Filmography

Death

Cellier died 18 January 1981, age 67, in Chelsea, London, England.