Gabrielle Brune | |
Birth Name: | Gabrielle Hudson |
Birth Date: | 1912 2, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Bournemouth, Hampshire, England |
Death Place: | Chichester, Sussex, England |
Occupation: | Actress |
Gabrielle Brune (12 February 1912 in Bournemouth, Hampshire[1] - 18 January 2005 in Chichester, Sussex) was a British actress.[2]
On stage from 1930, her work included appearances in cabaret, the West End, on Broadway, in films and on television.[3] [4] [5]
Gabrielle Brune was born Gabrielle Hudson, the only child of Thomas Habgood Hudson and Adrienne Brune; both parents were theatre professionals from Australia. Her mother was an actress and singer.[6] She used her mother's surname professionally.
In 1941, she was reported to be recovering from appendicitis and double pneumonia in a river house at Datchet on the Thames.[7]
In 1938, Brune was described as "Mrs. G. M. Thompson, wife of an English actor" in a news report about her first professional trip to America: (NB: Raymond Francis).[8] In 1942, she married an American Army officer, Maj. Walter J. Currie, in London.[9] [10]
She died on 18 January 2005, at the age of 92.