Antoinette Cellier | |
Birth Name: | Florence Antoinette Glossop Cellier |
Birth Date: | 23 June 1913 |
Birth Place: | Broadstairs, Kent, England |
Death Place: | London, England |
Occupation: | Actress |
Children: | 1 |
Parents: | Frank Cellier Florence Glossop-Harris |
Relatives: | Augustus Harris (maternal grandfather) François Cellier (paternal grandfather) Alfred Cellier (great-uncle) Peter Cellier (half-brother) Phyllis Shannaw (stepmother) |
Antoinette Cellier, Lady Seton (23 June 1913 – 18 January 1981) was an English film and theatre actress.[1] [2]
She was born Florence Antoinette Glossop Cellier in Broadstairs, Kent, England. Her father, Frank Cellier, was a film and theatre actor, and her mother was Florence Glossop-Harris. Her grandparents included Augustus Harris, the actor-manager, and François Cellier, musical director of the Savoy Theatre. Her half-brother Peter Cellier also became a film, television and theatre actor.[3] [4]
Cellier was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.[5]
In 1940, she became the second wife of actor Sir Bruce Lovat Seton, 11th Baronet of Abercorn.[6] [7]
She made her stage début in London's West End theatre in Firebird.[8] Her first film was Music Hath Charms (1935).
Cellier died 18 January 1981, age 67, in London.[9]