Natasha Pyne

Natasha Pyne (born 9 July 1946) is an English actress who starred in The Taming of the Shrew (1967 film), The Breaking of Bumbo (1970) and Father, Dear Father (1973). Early life Pyne was born in Crawley, Sussex on 9 July 1946. She is descended from a sister of Empress Eugénie, the wife of French emperor Napoleon III. Her father was a military attaché to the British embassy in Rome and she attended a private school in London. She went to a comprehensive school in Fulham, Hurlingham School, for the latter part of her education. Career Theatre Pyne began her acting career at the Royal Court in a production of John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence in 1964 Pyne played Ophelia in a Charles Marowitz's adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' at the Open Space Theatre at Tottenham Court Road in July 1969. Pyne starred in the Denise Coffey directed production of Brandon Thomas's Charley's Aunt and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of being Earnest at the Young Vic in 1977. She returned to the Royal Court in 1990 in Robert Holman's Rafts and Dreams.