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Whitelaw grew up in a disadvantaged neighborhood and attended the Thornton Grammar School In Bradford, England . At age 11, she began performing as a child actor on radio programs and later worked as an assistant stage manager at a provincial theatre. After training at RADA , Whitelaw made her stage debut at age 22 in London 1950 . Making her film debut in " The Sleeping Tiger " ( 1954 ) as a secretary, Whitelaw soon becoming a regular in British films of the 1950s and 1960s , her more notable film credits including '' Charlie Bubbles '' ( 1967 ), Frenzy (written by Anthony Shaffer , dir. by Alfred Hitchcock , 1972 ), The Omen ( 1976 ), The Water Babies ( 1979 ), Maurice (based on E. M. Forster 's posthumously published novel, dir. by James Ivory , 1987 ), and The Krays ( 1990 ). Upon meeting in 1963 , Whitelaw and famed Irish playwright Samuel Beckett enjoyed an intense professional relationship up until the playwright's death in 1989 . Together they collaborated and performed plays such as ' Play ', ' Eh Joe ', ' Krapp's Last Tape ', ' Not I ,' ' Footfalls ' and ' Rockaby ' for both stage and screen. Whitelaw is now regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. Married first to the actor Peter Vaughan , Whitelaw and Vaughan divorced and she later married writer and drama critic Robert Muller with whom she had a son. Her Autobiography , '' Billie Whitelaw . . . Who He? ,'' published by St. Martin's Press (released in 1996 ), goes into further detail about her family life; childhood and her professional relationship with playwright Samuel Beckett . Whitelaw currently resides in Hampstead , London and continues to work on stage, films and television. She regularly gives lectures on the Beckettian Technique . FILMOGRAPHY
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