Place of birth: Eton, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Death: 2001-11-24
Rachel Gurney is best remembered as the moneyed Belgravian matriarch, Lady Marjorie Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs, Celia Randall in Compact, Madame Merle in The Portrait of a Lady and Lady Tremaine in Little Sir Nicholas. Her stage career spanned nearly half a century.