Flora Robson Net Worth

Flora Robson was a renowned British actress who began her career on stage at the age of 5. She was educated at Palmer's Green High School and went on to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, winning a Bronze Medal in 1921. After a few years of working as a factory welfare officer, she returned to the stage and made her film debut in 1931. She was praised for her roles in The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934), The Lion Has Wings (1939), We Are Not Alone (1939), and Wuthering Heights (1939). She was also nominated for an Oscar for her role in Saratoga Trunk (1945). Throughout her career, she continued to perform on stage, and was honored with the Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1952 and Dame Commander (DBE) in 1960. She was also the subject of a biography, Flora: The Life of Dame Flora Robson (1981), and has two portraits in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress, Soundtrack
Birth Day March 28, 1902
Birth Place  South Shields, Durham, England, United Kingdom
Age 118 YEARS OLD
Died On 7 July 1984(1984-07-07) (aged 82)\nBrighton, Sussex, England
Birth Sign Aries
Alma mater Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation Actress
Years active 1921–1984

💰 Net worth: $600,000 (2024)

Flora Robson, a renowned actress and soundtrack artist from the United Kingdom, is estimated to have a net worth of $600,000 in 2024. With a successful career in both film and television, Robson has mesmerized audiences with her exceptional performances over the years. Her talent and dedication have enabled her to accumulate significant wealth, further cementing her status as a prominent figure in the entertainment industry. With a diverse portfolio of work, Robson remains an iconic figure whose contributions have made a lasting impact on the world of entertainment.

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Biography/Timeline

1907

Robson was born in South Shields, County Durham, of Scottish descent to a family of six siblings. Many of her forebears were Engineers, mostly in shipping. Her father was a ship's Engineer who moved from Wallsend near Newcastle to Palmers Green in 1907 and Southgate in 1910, both in north London, and later to Welwyn Garden City.

1921

Robson made her stage debut in 1921. By the 1930s she was appearing in several prominent films both in the UK and in Hollywood, alongside such stars as Laurence Olivier, Paul Muni and George Raft. Her most notable role was that of Queen Elizabeth I in both Fire Over England (1937) and The Sea Hawk (1940). In 1934, Robson played the Empress Elizabeth in Alexander Korda's Catherine the Great (1934). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Angelique Buiton, a servant, in Saratoga Trunk (1945). The same year, audiences in the U.K. and the U.S. watched her hypnotic performance as Ftatateeta, the nursemaid and royal confidante and murderess-upon-command to Vivien Leigh's Queen Cleopatra in the screen adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra (1945).

1923

A plaque at 40 Handside Lane in Welwyn Garden City records Flora Robson living there from 1923 to 1925.

1931

In 1931, she was cast as the adulterous Abbie in Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms. Her brief, shocking appearance as the doomed prostitute in James Bridie's play The Anatomist put her firmly on the road to success. "If you are not moved by this girl's performance, then you are immovable" the Observer critic wrote. This success would lead to her famous 1933 season as leading lady at the Old Vic.

1945

She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Angelique Buiton, a Haitian maid, in Saratoga Trunk (1945).

1947

After the Second World War, demonstrating her range, she appeared in Holiday Camp (1947), the first of a series of films which featured the very ordinary Huggett family; as Sister Philippa in Black Narcissus (1947); as a magistrate in Good-Time Girl (1948); as a prospective Labour MP in Frieda (1947); and in the costume melodrama Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948). Her other film roles included the Empress Dowager Cixi in 55 Days at Peking (1963), Miss Milchrest in Murder at the Gallop (1963), the Queen of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972), and Livia in the aborted I, Claudius in 1937.

1952

She was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1952 New Year Honours, and raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in the 1960 Birthday Honours. She was also the first famous name to become President of the Brighton Little Theatre.

1958

On 4 July 1958, she received an honorary DLitt from Durham University at a congregation in Durham Castle.

1960

She continued her acting career late into life, though not on the West End stage, from which she retired at the age of 67, often for American television films, including a lavish production of A Tale of Two Cities (in which she played Miss Pross). She also performed for British television, including The Shrimp and the Anemone. In the 1960s, she continued to act in the West End, in Ring Round the Moon, The Importance of Being Earnest and Three Sisters, among others.

1961

She was the subject of This Is Your Life in February 1961 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in central London.

1962

Dame Flora Robson Avenue, built in 1962, in Simonside, South Shields, is named after her. There is a plaque on the house in Wykeham Terrace, Dyke Road, Brighton, and also one in the doorway of St. Nicholas's Church, of which Flora Robson was a great supporter.

1981

She continued to act on film and television. She was last briefly seen as a Stygian Witch in the fantasy adventure Clash of the Titans in 1981. Both the BBC and ITV made special programs to celebrate her 80th birthday in 1982, and the BBC ran a short season of her best films.

1985

She died in Brighton, aged 82; the cause was never revealed. She had never been married or had any children. The two sisters, with whom she shared her life and home, died around the same time: Shela shortly before Flora, in 1984, and Margaret on 1 February 1985.

1996

In 1996, the British Film Institute erected a plaque at number 14 Marine Gardens, location of Flora's other home in Brighton, where she lived from 1961 to 1976.

2010

A blue plaque sponsored by Southgate District Civic Trust and Robson's former school Palmers Green High School was unveiled at her family home from 1910 to 1921, The Lawe, 65, The Mall, Southgate, on 25 April 2010.