The actor Yvonne Furneaux, who has died aged 98, considered her decision to adopt a French screen name as the “great mistake” of her career.
Having been born to British parents in Roubaix, near Lille, as Elisabeth Yvonne Scatcherd, she adopted her mother’s birth name when she began performing. “This, combined with my rather continental appearance, has always worked against me in getting British roles,” she told the New York Daily News in 1958.
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