A much-loved comic actor who has specialized in playing plummy, quintessentially English stereotypes, Leslie Phillips' heart was in acting from a very young age. He received elocution lessons as a child in order to lose his natural cockney accent (at that time a regional British accent was a major impediment to an aspiring actor) and he attended the Italia Conti School.
拉尔丁-麦克伊万原名Geraldine McKeown,1932年5月9日出生在英格兰伯克郡的老温莎区,是英国著名女演员。1991年,杰拉尔丁-麦克伊万曾因《橘子不是唯一的水果》获得全英电视奖最佳女演员奖,并在2004年至2009年期间出演推理女王阿加莎-克里斯蒂同名小说改编的电视剧《马普尔小姐探案》系列,由此为中国观众所熟悉。据杰拉尔丁-麦克伊万的家人介绍,杰拉尔丁·麦克伊万曾于去年10月底中风。