Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies

**Dame Gwen Lucy Ffrangcon-Davies** (25 ga watan Janairun shekara ta 1891 - 27 ga watan Janairu shekara ta 1992) 'yar wasan kwaikwayo ce ta Burtaniya wacce ta yi aiki galibi a gidan wasan kwaikwayo da talabijin, da rediyo da fim. Ta yi wasan kwaikwayo na karshe a matsayin mai Shekaru ɗari a shekarar 1991.

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haife ta ne a Landan na dangin Welsh; an ce sunan "Ffrangcon" ya samo asali ne daga kwarin a Snowdonia . Iyayenta sun kasance David Ffrangcon-Davies (an haife shi David Thomas Davies) da Annie Francis Rayner . 

## Ayyuka
Ffrangcon-Davies ta fara fitowa a fagen wasa a shekarar 1911, a matsayin mawaƙa da kuma 'yar wasan kwaikwayo, kuma ta sami ƙarfafawa a cikin aikinta daga Ellen Terry . A shekara ta 1924, ta buga Juliet a gaban John Gielgud a matsayin Romeo, kuma Gielgud ya gode mata ga sauran rayuwarsa saboda alherin da ta nuna masa,  ta jefa ta a matsayin Sarauniya Anne a *Richard na Bordeaux* a 1934. A cikin 1925, Ffrangcon-Davies ya buga Tess a cikin wani mataki na *Tess na d'Urbervilles*, gami da gabatarwa ta musamman ga marubucinsa, Thomas Hardy . 

A cikin 1938, Ffrangcon-Davies ya bayyana tare da Ivor Novello a cikin samar da Henry V a Drury Lane . Daga baya a wannan shekarar, ta bayyana a matsayin Mrs. Manningham a cikin samar da Gaslight na farko na Patrick Hamilton . Ffrangcon-Davies ta buga Lady Macbeth kusan kusan shekara guda a 1942 a gaban John Gielgud's Macbeth . 

Ta lashe lambar yabo ta Evening Standard a shekara ta 1958 don rawar da ta taka a matsayin Mary Tyrone a Long Day's Journey Into Night .  Ta bayyana rawar da ta fi so: "Wannan ita ce mafi girman bangare da na taɓa takawa. Lokacin da kake matashi, kuna so ka yi wasa da Juliet. Lokacin da ka tsufa, wannan daidai yake da Juliet, mahaifiyar da nake takawa tana shan miyagun ƙwayoyi, kuma tana ci gaba da komawa baya a cikin tunaninta. Ta zama kusan yaro kuma dama ce mai ban mamaki ga 'yar wasan kwaikwayo. "

A cikin 1960, Ffrangcon-Davies ya bayyana a Toronto, Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Crest na Kanada, yana yin wasan kwaikwayon Long Day's Journey Into Night .  Crest kawai ya sami izinin yin wasan ne a kan yanayin da Ffrangcon-Davies ke taka rawar mahaifiyar. Ta kuma gabatar da maraice na karatun shayari, da kuma nazarin halayen jarumai na Shakespeare Lady Macbeth, Catherine na Aragon, da Portia a Crest. Mahaifinta ya bayyana a Toronto a cikin 1900.

A cikin 1963, Ffrangcon-Davies ya bayyana a cikin The School for Scandal, wani farce na 1700s, tare da Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Muriel Forbes, Richard Easton, da Laurence Naismith a London, wanda daga baya ya zagaya New York, da Cibiyar O'Keefe ta Toronto. 

Ffrangcon-Davies ta yi ritaya daga mataki a shekarar 1970, amma ta ci gaba da bayyana a rediyo da talabijin; a daya daga cikin irin wannan bayyanar, wanda aka watsa a ranar Kirsimeti, 1990, wata daya kafin ranar haihuwarta ta 99, ta fito a cikin shirin rediyo na BBC, tare da Babban Jin daɗi, inda taurari suka zaɓi karatun da suka fi so, waɗanda wasu suka yi magana, da kansu. Ta zaɓi "Mulkin Allah", na Francis Thompson, wanda Alec McCowen ya karanta; wani sashi daga The Merchant of Venice, wanda ta karanta kanta, da Anna Massey da Alec Mccowen; "Waɗannan na ƙaunace su", na Rupert Brooke, wanda Anna Massey ya karanta; kuma, wani ɓangare na *Ginshiƙai Bakwai na Hikima*, na T. E. Lawrence, wanda ta taɓa saduwa da shi, Alec McCwen ya karanta shi; an haɗa shi a cikin tarin cassette na 1992 tare da Babban Jin da Babban Jinƙai. A cikin shekarun 1980s, har zuwa cikin shekaru casa'in, ta bayyana a cikin shirin hira na *Wogan*, inda ta karanta, kalma bayan kalma, sanannen wurin mutuwar Juliet. 

Ta yi bayyanarta ta ƙarshe a matsayin Dowager a cikin The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes feature length episode The Master Blackmailer a lokacin da yake da shekaru 100. An lissafa ta a cikin *[[Guinness World Records|Littafin Guinness na Tarihi]]* a ƙarƙashin rukunin 'Mafi tsufa (UK) ' don wannan rawar. Fim dinta sun hada da The Witches (1966) da The Devil Rides Out (1968), duka biyu don Hammer Films.

## Rayuwa da mutuwarsa
An kirkiro Ffrangcon-Davies a matsayin Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire a shekarar 1991, [1] yana da shekaru 100, kuma shine mafi tsufa da aka nada a wannan girmamawa har sai 'yar wasan kwaikwayo Olivia de Havilland ta karbi matsayinta a shekarar 2017. [2] Ffrangcon-Davies ta mutu a shekara ta 1992, kwana biyu bayan ranar haihuwarta ta 101, kuma wata daya bayan an nuna rawar da ta taka na karshe.[3]

Yarinya ce, shekaru da yawa abokin aikinta ita ce 'yar wasan Afirka ta Kudu Marda Vanne .  Ta zauna a ƙauyen Stambourne, Essex, Ingila.

Ffrangcon-Davies ya bayyana sau biyu a kan Desert Island Discs: daya watsa a ranar 8 ga Oktoba 1962, ɗayan kuma a ranar 19 ga Yuni 1988. 

## Manazarta