Mrs. Dilys Gotobed "...At first Carrie hardly dared look at her but when she did she saw nothing alarming or sinister, just an old lady with silvery hair piled up high and a pale, invalid's face. She held out a thin hand covered with huge, glittering rings that were loose on her fingers and said, 'Come and sit here, pretty child. On this stool. Let me look at your eyes. Albert says they're like emeralds...'" Geraldine McEwan, from Old Windsor, England, started acting in her teens. After a stint with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961. In 1976 she was nominated for two Olivier Awards. In 1983 she won the Evening Standard Best Actress Award for The Rivals. In 1991 she won the BAFTA Best Actress Award for her performance as the Mother in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and in 1995 she won the Evening Standard Best Actress Award for her performance of Lady Wishfort in The Way of the World. In 1998, McEwan was nominated for a Tony Award in the Best Actress Category for The Chairs. Now well known to MYSTERY! viewers as Miss Marple, McEwan has appeared in previously in The Barchester Chronicles and Mapp & Lucia, and in the films Henry V, The Love Letter, The Magdalene Sisters and Vanity Fair. She also provided the voice of Miss Thripp in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.