Lou Gish, who has died of cancer aged 35, was a bright and sassy actor of natural poise and comic edge. The daughter of the actors Roland Curram and Sheila Gish (obituary, March 11 2005), she demonstrated her range in her last two stage roles.
At the tiny Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, west London, in January last year, she played General Pinochet's Spanish lawyer in Thea Sharrock's riveting promenade production of Fermín Cabal's Tejas Verdas (Green Gables), a moving memorial to Chilean torture victims. Last summer she took on the role of Goneril in Steven Pimlott's lucid version of King Lear, starring David Warner, in the Minerva Theatre, Chichester...
Lou Gish, who has died of cancer aged 35, was a bright and sassy actor of natural poise and comic edge. The daughter of the actors Roland Curram and Sheila Gish (obituary, March 11 2005), she demonstrated her range in her last two stage roles.
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