Lucy Gutteridge


Lucy Kérimée Gutteridge is a retired English actress.

Personal life

Gutteridge was born in London, England, the eldest daughter of Major Bernard Hugh Gutteridge, Legion of Merit, a poet and writer, by his 1947 marriage to Nabila Farah Kérimée Halim, the daughter of H.H. Prince Muhammad Said Bey Halim of Egypt and his British second wife, Nabila Malika. Through her mother, Gutteridge is a great-great-great-granddaughter of Muhammad Ali of Egypt, a Muslim subject of the Ottoman Empire who became the father of modern Egypt. She is thus a distant cousin of Egypt's last king, Fuad II. She has two sisters, Anne-Marie Morwenna Gutteridge and Cosima Farah Gutteridge. She married Andrew Hawkins, a son of the actor Jack Hawkins, in London in 1978. They had a daughter, Alice, born 1979.

Career

Gutteridge was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category "Actress in a Leading Role – Mini-Series Or Television Film" for the 1982 television miniseries Little Gloria... Happy at Last. In that series she portrayed Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, the mother of artist and writer Gloria Vanderbilt. She also played Thelma Morgan, Lady Furness in the TV movie 'The Woman He Loved' which was about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Thelma Morgan, Lady Furness was the twin sister of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. She co-starred in the episode "The Wrong 'Un" in the TV series Tales of the Unexpected, also featuring in two other episodes of the series.
She has also appeared in such films as Top Secret! and Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again.

Filmography