Lynne Maria Frederick (July 25, 1954 – April 27, 1994) was an English actress.
Born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, Frederick's film career began in 1970. Her early films included royal roles as Tatiana, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), and Catherine Howard in Henry VIII and his Six Wives (1972).
Other notable roles included Lucy in The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972), a doomed Jewish refugee in the fact-based...
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Lynne Maria Frederick (July 25, 1954 – April 27, 1994) was an English actress.
Born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, Frederick's film career began in 1970. Her early films included royal roles as Tatiana, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), and Catherine Howard in Henry VIII and his Six Wives (1972).
Other notable roles included Lucy in The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972), a doomed Jewish refugee in the fact-based Voyage of the Damned (1976) and one of the teenage leads in Hammer Films' Vampire Circus (1972) and Saul Bass's Phase IV (1974). She also appeared in the episode of Space: 1999 entitled "A Matter of Balance" and in the Christmas 1973 edition of The Generation Game, playing Cinderella.
She became the fourth and final wife of the actor and comedian Peter Sellers, and was criticised by many of his contemporaries who regarded her as an opportunist who married him for his money, though others noted that Sellers was a womanizer and actively pursued...
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