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Araby Lockhart (born December 4, 1926) is a Canadian stage and television actress, best known for her performances in the films Capote and Police Academy and her stage performances as a member of Hart House Theatre and the Straw Hat Players. Lockhart has also served as President of the Actors' Fund of Canada. Lockhart became interested in acting as a teenager and attended the University of Toronto in 1947, where she acted at Hart House Theatre under artistic director Robert Gill. She also accompanied Gill to act in summer stock theatre in Woodstock, New York. In the summer of 1948, Gill's students Murray and Donald Davis founded the Straw Hat Players repertory theatre company at their summer home in Port Carling, Muskoka; Lockhart was a member of the company and acted in the company's first production of the melodrama The Drunkard, along with classmates Charmion King, Ted Follows, and Eric House. While at Hart House, she met John Gray, an aspiring writer and actor, and they married in 1952.Lockhart also toured Canada with the show Spare Rib, showcasing the history of Canada as told and performed by women, in 1955 and served as a member of the Stratford Festival company.
In 1960, Lockhart, Gray and their three children, John, Nicholas, and Rebecca, moved to London to find work in the vital West End theatre scene. Lockhart produced and performed in the Canadian satirical revue Clap Hands, co-written by Gray, at the Prince Charles Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith, along with Peter Mews, and Eric House. While in London, the couple had two more children, Susannah and Felix.
Gray and Lockhart divorced in 1983.
Filmography
all 12
Movies 7
TV Shows 5
Voice 1
Absolution (2006)
Salem Witch Trials (2002)
Franklin's Magic Christmas (2001)
Looking for Miracles (1989)
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1985)
Police Academy (1984)
Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)
Danger Island (1968)
The Pistol (1965)
The Saint (1962)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1926-12-04 (97 years old)
Birth PlaceToronto, Canada
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