Biography

Rita Davies (24 February 1933 – 19 January 2016) was a British character actress whose career spanned nearly six decades. She is best known for her cameo as the Historian's Wife in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) and her sustained role as Sarah Frobisher-Smythe in House of Anubis (2011). Her other film credits include Children of Men (2006), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and Beauty and the Beast (2017, posthumous). On television she appeared in Brideshead Revisited (2008), Casualty, Doctors, Call the Midwife, Unforgotten, and Sherlock. She died of cancer at age 82 in Esher, Surrey. No major awards are on record.

Known For

Beauty and the Beast

Old Woman

The Da Vinci Code

Elegant Woman at Rosslyn

Children of Men

Café Customer

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Historian's Wife

The Best Offer

Mrs. Derain

Brideshead Revisited

Nanny Hawkins

The Broken

Old Lady in Underground

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

Old Woman on Pier