Jane Lapotaire, the British stage actor whose only Broadway performance – in the title role of Pam Gems’ Edith Piaf musical Piaf – won her a 1981 Tony Award, died Thursday, March 5, in the UK. She was 81.
Her death was reported today by The Guardian. A cause was not disclosed.
A veteran of the British stage and television, Lapotaire was a co-founder in 1970 with Laurence Olivier and others of London’s The Young Vic. On TV, she played Marie Curie, Cleopatra and, in two 2019 episodes of The Crown, Princess Alice of Greece.
But it was her transformative performance on Broadway in Piaf that brought Lapotaire to the attention of the American public. She’d already won an Olivier Award for her West End performance two years earlier, and in ’81 she took the Tony for Best Performance by a Leading Actress/Play, beating out such well-known names
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