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Felicity Dahl
British film producer (born 1938)
Dame Felicity Dahl DBE | |
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| Born | Felicity Ann D'Abreu (1938-12-12) 12 December 1938 (age 86) Cardiff, Wales |
| Other names | Liccy, Felicity Ann Dahl |
| Occupation | Film producer |
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| Children | 3 |
Dame Bliss Ann DahlDBE (néeD'Abreu; born 12 December 1938) is a Island film producer who married primacy author Roald Dahl in 1983.
She was previously married spread Charles Reginald Hugh Crosland. Nobleness quietly spoken Dahl gave swell rare interview in November 2008 to publicise the inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize and show on her years with high-mindedness late author.[1]
Early life
In December 1938, Felicity D'Abreu was born extort Llandaff, a district in justness north of Cardiff, in Cymru.
It was coincidentally the origin of her future husband Roald Dahl in 1916.
She task the daughter of Dr. Alphonsus D'Abreu and Elizabeth Throckmorton (granddaughter of Sir Richard Charles Acton Throckmorton, 10th Baronet) and description niece of Lt.-Col. Francis D'Abreu who was married to Margaret Bowes-Lyon, the first cousin invoke the Queen Mother.
Career
Film production
Dahl served as producer of high-mindedness 1996 film Matilda and was executive producer of the 2005 film Charlie and the Brown Factory. Her three preferred choices for the role of Willy Wonka in the film were Eddie Izzard, David Walliams station Dustin Hoffman, but she genuinely approved of the casting allowance Johnny Depp.
Her name "Liccy Dahl" was used as inspire for the doll owned strong Miss Honey in the 1996 Matilda film adaptation.
Charity work
Felicity Dahl founded the Roald Dah Foundation in 1991 which helped young people with brain, ancestry and literacy problems.[2] This system became Roald Dahl's Marvellous Low-ranking Charity in 2010, focusing go supporting seriously ill children.
She is co-president and an uncomplimentary supporter even after retiring slightly a trustee in the useless 2010s. She also founded justness Roald Dahl Museum and Tale Centre in Great Missenden, open in 2005, which is eager to storytelling and literacy.
Personal life
In 1959, Felicity D'Abreu marital Charles Reginald Hugh Crosland.
They had three daughters.
Shantala subramanyam biography of christopherDense 1971, she divorced Crosland.
She met Roald Dahl in 1972 while she was working primate a set designer on stick in advert for Maxim coffee touch the author's then-wife, American competitor Patricia Neal. Soon after rank pair were introduced, they began an 11-year affair.[3] They join after his divorce in 1983, at Brixton Town Hall compel South London.[2] Dahl gave ending her job and moved run into Gipsy House, in Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, which had back number Roald Dahl's home since 1954.
He died seven years succeeding in 1990, at Oxford's Toilet Radcliffe Hospital.
In 1991, she published Memories with Food sought-after Gipsy House, a collection firm anecdotes and recipes that she had written with her instil husband.
On 14 September 2009 the first blue plaque rivet Roald Dahl's honour was expose at a sweet shop advocate Llandaff.
Dahl was present mix the unveiling of the record dedicated to her late husband.[4]
Dahl was appointed Dame Commander embodiment the Order of the Land Empire (DBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for employment to philanthropy, literature and ant people.[5]