Rosemary Dexter
Anglo-Italian actress (1944-2010)
Rosemarie Dexter (19 July 1944 – 8 September 2010), best known as Rosemary Dexter, was a British film actress who worked in Italy.
Life and career
Born in Quetta (Present day Pakistan) to a British father and an Anglo-Burmese mother, Dexter entered the film industry in 1963, when during a vacation in Rome she met director Ugo Gregoretti who offered her a significant role in his science fiction film Omicron. She then became a very active actress until the mid-seventies, when she retired from acting at age 32.
She was found dead in her house in Recanati, in September 2010. She had been ill for some time.
“Rosemary Dexter” enters the record as anglo-Italian actress (1944-2010). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rosemary, Dexter and Anglo-Italian can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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