Janie Dee in Woman in Mind
Alan Ayckbourn; Peter Hall and Harold Pinter’s leading lady.
“Ronnie Corbett’s hardly known for giving people the spooks, yet actress Janie Dee has been left with a strange chill ever since their first encounter.
“I was more excited than meeting the Queen,” Janie says, an adoring fan of Ronnie since childhood. It was in 2000 – a special year for Janie – behind the stage after one of her performances in Sir Alan Ayckbourn’s Comic Potential at the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue.
“I felt a hand on one shoulder and his face appeared round the other,” Janie recalls. “He said ‘I love you’ and I said, ‘No, I love you’.” The compliment was returned back and forth three times before…
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