The 66-year-old was most popular for her parts in parody series Drop The Dead Jackass and as Camilla in English sitcom The Windsors.

Haydn Gwynne has died aged 66

Actress Haydn Gwynne has died aged 66 following a recent cancer diagnosis, her representatives have confirmed.

The stage and screen entertainer was most popular for her jobs in parody series Drop The Dead Jackass and as Camilla in English sitcom The Windsors.

Gwynne at the Laurence Olivier Awards in 2006

An assertion from her delegates said: "It is with extraordinary trouble we are imparting to you that, following her new finding with disease, the star of stage and screen Haydn Gwynne passed on in emergency clinic in the little long stretches of Friday October 20, encompassed by her dearest children, close loved ones.

"We might want to thank the staff and groups at the Illustrious Marsden and Brompton Clinics for their great consideration throughout the course of recent weeks."

Gwynne with John Owen-Jones as the judges in The Great British Bake Off Musical.
 
Helen Mirren honored Gwynne, considering her a "enchant personally and a quintessential devoted entertainer".

"I had the colossal joy of imparting the stage to her," she added, "in the play 'The Crowd' where, similar as the first characters, (Sovereign Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher) we moved a fragile dance together.

"She was both entertaining and serious simultaneously, a splendid difficult exercise that her entire profession exemplified. We will miss her definitely."

Cameron Mackintosh, a theater maker who was working with Gwynne until she became sick, said the news came as an "gigantic shock"

He said: "Haydn was a genuinely great individual, as well as an incredibly gifted entertainer and vocalist, so it is a twofold misfortune for everybody to be denied of both her tremendous ability and her organization so suddenly.

"The organization of 'Lifelong companions' is devoting this evening's presentation to her memory and remarkable profession. As Haydn raised a glass to the crowd and said, 'I might want to give an impromptu speech… ', everybody in the Gielgud Theater this evening might want to give an impromptu speech to dear Haydn. God favor her."

Brought into the world in Sussex, Gwynne consumed her initial grown-up time on earth in Rome showing English, yet had long needed to be an entertainer and gotten back to seek after her fantasy at age 25.

She originally made her name in 1990 as the frigid partner supervisor Alex Pates in the parody Drop The Dead Jackass, which likewise procured her a BAFTA television designation in 1992.

Her job as Dr Joanna Graham in Pinnacle Practice likewise impelled her to acclaim.

She had a praised vocation in front of an audience too and got two Olivier Grant gestures for her presentation in West End creations of City Of Heavenly messengers and Billy Elliot The Melodic.


Gwynne with Billy Elliot cast members in February 2006

She got two further selections for her jobs in The Threepenny Drama and Ladies Very nearly A Mental meltdown.

Her West End theater jobs remembered playing Margaret Thatcher for Peter Morgan's 2013 play The Crowd, which likewise featured Lady Helen Mirren as the Sovereign.

Gwynne highlighted in various imperial series and depicted previous regal helper Woman Susan Hussey, who left the illustrious family following a prejudice line, in the fifth series of The Crown.

She likewise joined The Incomparable English Prepare Off Melodic as Pam Lee, the adjudicator in view of Prue Leith, recently.

She had been expected to show up in Mackintosh's most recent melodic creation, named Stephen Sondheim's Lifelong companions, at the Gielgud Theater when the show opened in September - however she needed to pull out ahead of time because of "abrupt individual conditions".

At that point, Mackintosh had reviewed that she had turned into an "necessary part" of the "extremely affectionate organization" in the wake of giving an "remarkable" execution of the melody Women Who Lunch during a Lifelong companions function debut in May 2022, adding: "Haydn will be especially missed."