Pauline Brailsford Explained

Pauline Brailsford
Birth Name:Pauline Alethea Brailsford
Birth Date:1928 12, df=y
Birth Place:Ecclesall, South Yorkshire, England
Occupation:Actress
Years Active:1952–1996
Spouse:John Homi
Children:2

Pauline Alethea Brailsford (born 7 December 1928)[1] [2] [3] is an English retired actress and director.

Her best-known film performance was A League of Their Own as the team's chaperone Miss Cuthburt, for which she shared a 1993 MTV Movie Award nomination with Tom Hanks for Best Kiss. She taught theatre studies at Columbia College in Chicago, and she was the artistic director of the Body Politic theatre company in Chicago in the 1980s and early 1990s.[4]

Filmography

References

  1. Note: Brailsford was born on 7 December 1928; according to findmypast.co.uk, her birth was registered in the last quarter (Oct-Nov-Dec) of 1928. The primary issue is that at some point a mistranscription from the European-style dd/mm/yyyy to the US-style mm/dd/yyyy occurred. Intelius and ancestry.com cite 12 July 1928.
  2. "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV3K-7942: accessed 19 August 2015), Pauline A Brailsford, 1928; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006" database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com: 2012); citing Birth Registration, Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
  3. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KTWJ-B5C United States Public Records Index from a third party aggregator of publicly available information
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20140921204441/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3777522.html Profile