Georgina Hale (born 4 August 1943) is an English actress who has appeared in many films and television programmes.
Georgina Hale was born in Ilford, Essex in 1943. She made her first TV appearance in The Wednesday Play in 1966. Her first major television role was as Lili in The Strauss Family in 1972. Hale appeared in a 1975 episode of Upstairs, Downstairs called An Old Flame. She appeared in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who in the 1988 serial The Happiness Patrol as the character Daisy K, an enforcer of happiness on an Earth colony where sadness was outlawed.
Often appearing in Ken Russell films, her best-known film appearances were as Fay in his 1971 musical The Boy Friend and, more prominently, as Alma Mahler in 1974's Ken Russell biopic of the composer Gustav Mahler, for which she won the Best Newcomer BAFTA award.
In 1980 she starred in 'The Who films' feature film McVicar starring opposite Roger Daltrey as 'gangster's moll' Kate.
Hale has appeared in many television programmes since 1990, including One Foot in the Grave, Murder Most Horrid, Casualty, Trial & Retribution, The Bill and Emmerdale.
She played the role of T-Bag from 1990 to 1992 in the children's television programmes T-Bag and the Pearls of Wisdom, T-Bag's Christmas Ding Dong, T-Bag and the Rings of Olympus, T-Bag's Christmas Turkey, T-Bag and the Sunstones of Montezuma, and Take Off with T-Bag. Before her the role of T. Bag was played by Elizabeth Estensen
Georgina Hale is a accomplished stage actress who has made many memorable forays in cinema. Most notably in the films of Ken Russell including her performance as Alma Mahler, in a wonderful and visually rich biopic on the composer Mahler which she won a BAFTA (British Acadamy Award) for. Two other standout performances were in Russell's notorious The Devil's and the Twiggy musical The Boyfriend in which she deliciously plays Fay, camping it up, in a backstage lesbian sub plot. She has made in-joke cameo's in two further Russell films; Lisztomania and Valentino. Unfortuently roles were not forthcoming after her BAFTA win (who knows why?) and she made some pretty bad movie choices such as tacky Joan Collin's The World Is Full Of Married Men and McVicar as well as the occasional stunner such as Butley, written by playwright Simon Gray. Georgina has appeared in many of Gray's stage plays (many have been filmed for British televion with her starring) along side Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson and continues to work in British theatre. Georgina has made many appearances as guest star in televison series including: Upstairs Downstairs, The Ladykillers, Murder Most Horrid, The Vicar of Dibley, The Protectors, One Foot In The Grave, Three episodes of Doctor Who and many many more. She has starred in two television series; Budgie, a successful series in the Seventies and in the early ninties a cult childrens series based around a witch like figure called T-Bag. Most recently she has appeared in a comic role in Preaching To The Perverted in which her character points out that sometimes one has to debase one's self to further one's career. This film may not further her career (at age 55 she does a Sharon Stone under-table leg trick) but it will add to her growing reputation as one of the UK's favorite cult actresses.
