Anna Lee

Biography

Anna Lee, MBE (born Joan Boniface Winnifrith; 2 January 1913 – 14 May 2004) was a British actress. Lee married her first husband, the director Robert Stevenson, in 1933 and moved to Hollywood in 1939. She became a naturalised US citizen in 1945. In 1981, a car accident left her paralysed from the waist down. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Known For

The Sound of Music

as Sister Margaretta

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

as Mrs. Prescott - Widow in Stage Holdup (uncredited)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

as Mrs. Bates

How Green Was My Valley

as Bronwyn

Fort Apache

as Mrs. Emily Collingwood

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

as Mrs. Fairley

Mission: Impossible

as Maria Malik

The Horse Soldiers

as Mrs. Buford

Two Rode Together

as Mrs. Malaprop

Hangmen Also Die!

as Masha Novotny