Diana Quick

Diana Quick
Occupation	Actress
Partner	Bill Nighy
Children	Mary Nighy

Diana Quick (born 23 November 1946) is an English actress. She grew up in Dartford, Kent, the third of a dentist's four children.

Quick was born in London, England. She was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, Kent and at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. While at Oxford, she was the first female president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society.

She was greatly aided by her English Teacher, Miss Davis, at Dartford Grammar School for girls, who encouraged her to pursue acting. She became a member of an amateur dramatic society in Crayford, Kent whilst at School as well as appearing in many school productions. She was feted as one of the most beautiful and talented actresses of her generation and in 1984 a magazine ran a cover of her with the caption "Is this the most beautiful woman in the world?".

Quick is best known for her role as Julia in the television production of Brideshead Revisited. Her former longtime partner is actor Bill Nighy and they have one daughter, the actress Mary Nighy (born 1984). They have recently separated. The couple met in 1981 when co-starring in a play at the National Theatre in London. She was previously married to the actor Kenneth Cranham and had a relationship with Albert Finney which lasted seven years. Quick has spent the past seven years researching a book about her paternal family's life in India which she hopes to publish this year. Her great-grandfather served 23 years in the army in India before becoming a policeman and her great-grandmother had to flee from the Indian Mutiny after her father was killed.

Selected filmography

Film

• Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
• The Duellists (1977)
• The Three Hostages (1977)
• The Odd Job (1978)
• The Big Sleep (1978)
• Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
• Wilt (1989)
• Saving Grace (2000)
• The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
• The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
• Revengers Tragedy (2002)

Television

• Brideshead Revisited (1981)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1983)
• Minder: An Officer and a Car Salesman (1988)
• Dalziel and Pascoe ("For Love Nor Money") (2002)
• Inspector Morse ("Absolute Conviction")
• Poirot ("Sad Cypress") (2003)
• Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (2003)
• Kingdom: ("Series 2, Episode 5") (2008)

External links

• Diana Quick at IMDb