Jane Lapotaire

Jane Lapotaire
Born
Jane Elizabeth Marie Burgess

(1944-12-26) 26 December 1944
Ipswich, Suffolk, England
OccupationActress
Years active1965–present
Spouses
  • Oliver Wood
    (m. 1965; div. 1967)
  • (m. 1974; div. 1980)
ChildrenRowan Joffé

Jane Elizabeth Marie Lapotaire (née Burgess; 26 December 1944) is an English actress from Suffolk. Lapotaire won the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play for Piaf in 1979 and was nominated for the Actress of the Year Award in 1990 for Shadowlands. Additionally, Lapotaire was twice nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for Marie Curie and Sea Tales: The Return (1977) and Blind Justice (1988).