Anna Abigail Thynn, Marchioness of Bath (née Gyarmathy; 27 September 1943 – 17 September 2022), styled as Viscountess Weymouth from 1969 and 1992, also known by her stage name Anna Gaël, was a Hungarian-British actress and war correspondent.
Early life
Anna Abigail Gyarmarthy was born on 27 September 1943 in
Budapest
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,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
. Her father, László Izsak Gyarmathy, was a mathematician and her mother was a poet. She moved to France as a child and began acting when she was fifteen.
Career
Anna Gyarmarthy acted under the stage name 'Anna Gaël'. She starred in Hungarian, German, Italian and French films including ''Via Macau'' in 1966, ''
Therese and Isabelle
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Plot
Two young girls grow u ...
'' in 1968, ''
Zeta One
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Plot
A spy for Section 5, James Word, finds a secretary for the section waiting as he re ...
'', aka ''The Love Factor'' in 1969, and ''Take Me, Love Me'' in 1970. She retired from acting in 1981. She worked as a news reporter, covering conflicts in Vietnam, and South Africa as well as the
Northern Ireland conflict
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Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath
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, and
Daphne Fielding
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Early life
Daphne Vivian was born on 11 July 1904 in Westminster, London, the elder chil ...
, in Paris in 1959. She later became the Viscount's mistress while she was married to French film director Gilbert Pineau; in 1969, the Viscount and Gaël married. Later that year she gave birth to their first child, Lenka Thynn. In 1974 she gave birth to their second child, Ceawlin Thynn. In 1992 her husband succeeded his father as the 7th Marquess of Bath; he died in April 2020.
In 2013 her son married Emma McQuiston, the daughter of Nigerian businessman
Oladipo Jadesimi
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Education and career
Oladipo Jadesimi completed his secondary school education at Kin ...
. Gaël reportedly disapproved of her son's marriage due to her daughter-in-law's African ancestry. She did not attend the wedding.
Thynn died in
Paris
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on 17 September 2022, at the age of 78, ten days before her 79th birthday.
Filmography
*1962: ''Una storia milanese''
*1966: ''Via Macau''
*1967: ''
Hell Is Empty
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''
*1967: ''
Hotel Clausewitz
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Plot
The main character of the story, Stemmka, through ...
''
*1967: ''
To Commit a Murder
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*1968: ''Murder at the Grand Hotel'' (''Le Démoniaque'')
*1968: ''
Therese and Isabelle
''Thérèse and Isabelle'' (french: Thérèse et Isabelle) is a 1968 erotic drama film directed by Radley Metzger from a screenplay by Jesse Vogel, based on the 1966 novel ''Thérèse et Isabelle'' by Violette Leduc.
Plot
Two young girls grow u ...
''
*1968: ''Béru et ces dames''
*1969: ''
The House of the Missing Girls
''The House of the Missing Girls'' (French: ''Traquenards''; "Traps") is a 1969 French film directed by Jean-François Davy and starring Anna Gaël, Hans Meyer, and Roland Lesaffre. It follows a woman who becomes the moll of a possessive mobster. ...
'' (''Traquenards'')
*1969: ''
Zeta One
''Zeta One'' is a 1969 British comedy science fiction film directed by Michael Cort and starring James Robertson Justice, Charles Hawtrey and Dawn Addams.
Plot
A spy for Section 5, James Word, finds a secretary for the section waiting as he re ...
''
*1969: ''
The Bridge at Remagen
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''
*1969: ''Delitto al circolo del tennis''
*1970: ''Take Me, Love Me''
*1970: ''Nana''
*1971: ''
The Persuaders!
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Sweeney 2
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Bath
Bath may refer to:
* Bathing, immersion in a fluid
** Bathtub, a large open container for water, in which a person may wash their body
** Public bathing, a public place where people bathe
* Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities
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Anna
Anna may refer to:
People Surname and given name
* Anna (name)
Mononym
* Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke
* Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773)
* Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century)
* Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221)
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