Haydn Gwynne Dies: BAFTA And Tony-Award Nominated Actress Was 66
deadline.comActress Haydn Gwynne died today following a recent cancer diagnosis. She was 66. Her representatives confirmed the news Friday with a statement handed to multiple news outlets.
The statement said Gwynne died in hospital “in the small hours of Friday, October 20, surrounded by her beloved sons, close family, and friends.” “We would like to thank the staff and teams at the Royal Marsden and Brompton hospitals for their wonderful care over the last few weeks,” the statement added.
Born in Sussex, England, Gwynne studied Modern Languages at the University of Warwick before taking a five-year lectureship in Italy, where she taught English.
She became an actress in her mid-twenties and first came to notice on television as starring in the David Lodge campus comedy/drama Nice Work (1989) before joining the comedy series Drop the Dead Donkey (1990), for which she earned a BAFTA TV nomination in 1992.
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