Elizabeth Spender
Elizabeth Spender is a film and television actress known for her role in Brazil.
Early life and education
Spender is the daughter of concert pianist Natasha Spender and the poet, novelist and essayist Stephen Spender. She studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Drama Centre London. She also attended an Arvon Foundation television play-writing course which was taught by Jack Rosenthal.Career
Among numerous television and film credits, she appeared in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film Brazil.She has written two BBC TV dramas: Hedgehog Wedding produced by Innes Lloyd, and These Foolish Things which starred Lindsay Duncan. In the 1990s she wrote a series of Pastability cookbooks. In 2005 she published a memoir of her childhood, The Wild Horse Diaries.