Susannah York 9 January 1939 15 January 2011 was a British film stage and television actress She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses Dont They 1969 and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film She won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival In 1991 she was appointed an Officier de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres Her appearances in various hit films of the 1960s formed the basis of her international reputationand an obituary in The Telegraph characterised her as the blueeyed English rose with the chinawhite skin and cupid lips who epitomised the sensuality of the swinging Sixties Description above from the Wikipedia article Susannah York licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia