Virginia McKenna

**Dame Virginia Anne McKenna**  (an haife ta 7 Yuni 1931) 'yar wasan kwaikwayo ce ta Burtaniya, marubuciya, mai fafutukar kare Hakkin dabbobi, kuma mai fafutuka da namun daji. An fi saninta da fina-finai The Cruel Sea (1953), A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), da Ring of Bright Water (1969), da kuma aikinta tare da Born Free Foundation . 

McKenna ta lashe lambar yabo ta BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress a shekarar 1956. Don A Town Like Alice, ta lashe lambar yabo ta BAFTA don 'yar wasan kwaikwayo ta Burtaniya mafi kyau a shekara ta 1957, kuma a shekara ta 1979 ta lashe lambar zinare ta Laurence Olivier don 'yar wasa mafi kyau a cikin Musical don Sarki da Ni, wanda ya sa ta zama ɗaya daga cikin 'yan kalilan da suka kammala kambin Triple na Burtaniya.

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi McKenna a Marylebone a cikin dangin wasan kwaikwayo kuma ta yi karatu a makarantar Heron's Ghyll, tsohuwar makarantar kwana mai zaman kanta kusa da Garin kasuwa na Horsham a Sussex . Ta yi shekaru shida a Afirka ta Kudu kafin ta koma makaranta tana da shekaru goma sha huɗu, bayan haka ta halarci Makarantar Magana da Wasan kwaikwayo ta Tsakiya, a wannan lokacin da ke Royal Albert Hall, London.

## Ayyuka
Lokacin da yake da shekaru 19, McKenna ya shafe watanni shida a Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Dundee Repertory . Ta yi aiki a kan mataki a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na West End na London, inda ta fara fitowa a Penny for a Song . Ta ja hankalin mutane a talabijin da ta bayyana a cikin Winter's Tale tare da John Gielgud da Shout Aloud Salvation . 

Fim na farko na McKenna shine The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1952), sannan ya biyo bayan wasan kwaikwayo, Father's Doing Fine (1952). Tana da karamin rawa a cikin shahararren fim din yaki The Cruel Sea (1953) da kuma mafi kyawun ɓangare a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na kasafin kuɗi The Oracle (1953). Ta sami kyakkyawan bita don wasan kwaikwayon da ta yi a cikin The River Line .  A watan Yunin 1953, ta bayyana a cikin West End samar da William Douglas Home's The Bad Samaritan .  Daga 1954 zuwa 1955, ta kasance memba na kamfanin wasan kwaikwayo na Old Vic, ta bayyana a cikin Henry IV da Richard II . 

McKenna ya koma fina-finai tare da *Simba* (1955), wasan kwaikwayo game da Mau Mau, yana wasa da sha'awar soyayya ta Dirk Bogarde. Rank ya sanya mata hannu kan kwangila na dogon lokaci  kuma darektan Brian Desmond Hurst ya ce, "Ta da kyakkyawar makoma, an sarrafa ta yadda ya kamata. Tana da dukkan halaye na saurayi Bergman da matashi Katharine Hepburn .  McKenna ta kasance a cikin Jirgin da ya mutu daga Shame (1955).

### Shahararren
An ba McKenna rawar jagora a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na lokacin yaƙi A Town Like Alice (1956), a gaban Peter Finch . Fim din ya kasance babban abin bugawa a ofishin akwatin kuma McKenna ta lashe Kyautar BAFTA don 'yar wasan kwaikwayo mafi kyau saboda rawar da ta taka. Masu baje kolin sun zabe ta a matsayin ta huɗu mafi mashahuriyar tauraron Burtaniya. A watan Oktoba na shekara ta 1956, John Davis, manajan darektan Rank, ya sanar da ita a matsayin daya daga cikin 'yan wasan kwaikwayo a karkashin kwangila wanda Davis ya yi tunanin zai zama tauraron kasa da kasa.

Travers da McKenna sun sami tayin zuwa Hollywood don bayyana a cikin Barretts na Wimpole Street (1957). Travers ya buga Robert Browning kuma McKenna yana da goyon bayan 'yar'uwar Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Fim din ya fadi a ofishin akwatin. A wannan shekarar, Travers da McKenna, tare da Margaret Rutherford da Peter Sellers, sun yi aiki tare a cikin wasan kwaikwayo The Smallest Show on Earth, wanda aka dawo a Burtaniya.

McKenna ta sake bugawa tare da Carve Her Name tare da Pride (1958), tana wasa da wakilin SOE na Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu Violette Szabo . An zabi ta don wani lambar yabo ta BAFTA kuma an zabe ta a matsayin ta biyar mafi mashahuriyar tauraron Burtaniya ta 1958 (kuma ta tara mafi mashahurin ba tare da la'akari da kasa ba).

Ita da Travers sun sake haɗuwa a cikin Passionate Summer (1958), wanda ya kasance fashewa. Wannan shi ne fim dinta na karshe ga Rank . Filmink ta yi jayayya "babban asarar ne cewa daga ƙarshe ta rabu da hanyar studio (saboda haɗuwa da ciki da rashin son yin fina-finai a kan tayin) - McKenna cikakkiyar tauraron mace ce ga Rank kuma tana da babban dumi da ikon haɗi tare da masu sauraro, fiye da mafi yawan tauraron kwangilar mata na '50s' studio.[1]

Tana da wani bangare na tallafi a cikin MGM's The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959). McKenna da Travers sun kasance a cikin Two Living, One Dead (1961), an harbe su a Sweden. Ta kasance a cikin wani gyare-gyare na A Passage to India don BBC a shekarar 1965.

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