Phyllida Law, a British actress known for a long career across stage, television and film, dies aged 94. Her personal manager says she dies “supremely peacefully at home,” surrounded by family.
Born in Glasgow in 1932, Law is accepted into the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she begins training for acting after initially intending to work as a stage designer. She appears in Bristol Old Vic productions in the 1950s and later marries actor Eric Thompson in 1957. Across her career spanning about eight decades, she performs in comedy, musicals and drama.
Several outlets also highlight that Law appears alongside her daughters, Emma Thompson and Sophie Thompson, in a number of projects, underscoring a family link to the screen. The main differences are emphasis and wording: some focus on her broad range of roles, while others foreground her relationship to Emma Thompson and her on-screen and film collaborations with her daughters.
