Biography
Edith Campion was a New Zealand actor and writer. Born Beverley Georgette Hannah on 13 December 1923 in Wellington, she trained at Victoria University of Wellington and the Old Vic Theatre School in London. In 1945 she married theatre director Richard Campion; the couple founded the New Zealand Players theatre company in 1953, with Campion taking many leading roles. She was appointed MBE in 1959.
Campion appeared in the short film The Audition (1989) and had a cameo as Miss Lindsay in her daughter Jane Campion’s feature An Angel at My Table (1990). She and Richard Campion divorced in 1987. She died on 16 September 2007 in Ōtaki, New Zealand.
