Ann Casson_

Ann Casson (6 November 1915 – 2 May 1990) was an English actress. She was a daughter of the actors Lewis Casson and Sybil Thorndike. Her theatre career spanned nearly seventy years and included plays by Shakespeare, Shaw and Coward, Greek tragedy, pantomime, and Gilbert and Sullivan. Most of Casson's career was in Britain, but in the 1950s she moved to Canada for some years, becoming a member of the Stratford Festival company. Returning to England in the 1970s she became a leading member of the Crucible Theatre company.