Biography

Anna Lee, MBE (born Joan Boniface Winnifrith; 2 January 1913 – 14 May 2004) was a British actress. Lee married her first husband, the director Robert Stevenson, in 1933 and moved to Hollywood in 1939. She became a naturalised US citizen in 1945. In 1981, a car accident left her paralysed from the waist down. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Known For

The Sound of Music

Sister Margaretta

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Mrs. Prescott (uncredited)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Mrs. Bates

How Green Was My Valley

Bronwyn

Fort Apache

Mrs. Emily Collingwood

The Horse Soldiers

Mrs. Buford

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Mrs. Fairley

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Titanic Passenger in Lifeboat (uncredited)