Hilary Heath

Born on May 6, 1945 in Liverpool, England, Hilary Dwyer (her real name) studied ballet and piano as a child. She started out as an actress on the stage at the Bristol Old Vic.

After working as a minor in a chapter of the popular British series The Avengers , Hilary Heath made her big screen debut in 1968 with The Inquisitor , where she played Sara, a young victim of a hateful witch hunter who was played with enormous conviction by Vincent Price. , horror icon. Much was made of the film because its director and co-writer, Michael Reeves , died just after the premiere, at the age of 25, from an overdose of alcohol and barbiturates.

Following the sci-fi film Body Snatchers , he reunited with Price in The Coffin , and The Scream of a Ghost . “I adore Vincent,” he explained during a meeting with the public in 2020. “I played his lover, his daughter and his wife. And he told me: If you ever play my mother, I’ll marry you.” She also appeared in Wuthering Heights , an adaptation of Emily Brontë ‘s 1970 book, and in the crime drama The Footprint Leads to London , opposite Yul Brynner . In the 70s,  Hilary Heath was lavished in television series, until 1976 when she said goodbye to acting after a chapter of Space: 1999 . 

In the 90s she returned to the cinema, this time as a producer. She was the driving force behind Mike Newell ‘s An Unusual Adventure , starring Hugh Grant , and Life’s Knockouts , written and directed by Gary Oldman . In addition, she studied a Master’s in psychology from the University of Oxford, which helped her become a counselor for addiction patients, in various clinics.

Divorced in 1989 from Duncan Heath, a talent agent, both had started the agency Duncan Heath Associates. They had two children, Laura and Daniel Heath, a soundtrack composer who included one of her songs, along with Danny Elfman ‘s ‘score’ , in Big Eyes .