Natasha Parry (2 December 1930 – 22 July 2015) was an English actress.

Early life

She was the daughter of the Anglo-Greek film director Gordon Parry and his Russian wife. She made her stage debut at age twelve.

Marriage

In 1951, she married director Peter Brook; the couple had two children, Irina and Simon.

Career

She made her screen debut in Dance Hall (1950). She appeared in many of her husband's productions including a live American television version of King Lear (1953) opposite Orson Welles, in Anouilh's The Fighting Cock with Rex Harrison, Meetings with Remarkable Men, The Cherry Orchard, and Happy Days. Parry died on 22 July 2015 while on holiday in La Baule, Brittany, France, at the age of 84 after a stroke.

Selected filmography

• Dance Hall (1950)
• Crow Hollow (1952)
• King Lear as Cordelia (1953)
• Knave of Hearts (1954)
• Windom's Way (1957)
• The Rough and the Smooth (1960)
• Midnight Lace (1960)
• Girl in the Headlines (1963)
• Romeo and Juliet (1968)
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
• Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979)
• Le Lit (1982)
• Le goût des myrtilles (2014)

Selected theatre

• King Lear (1953)
• Tchin-Tchin (1984, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris)