Diana Quick
Gender: Female
Born: 23rd November 1946 (currently 65 years old)
Nationality: United Kingdom
TV programs: The Complete and Utter History of Britain, Dandelion Dead, Brideshead Revisited, Cat Walk Dogs, Scream of the Shalka
Movies: AKA, The Three Hostages, Saving Grace, Revengers Tragedy, Max, Mon Amour, Dandelion Dead, The Duellists, Ordeal by Innocence, The Discovery of Heaven, Chanel Chanel
Diana Marilyn Quick (born 23 November 1946) is an English actress.
Quick was born in London, England. She grew up in Dartford, Kent, the third of a dentist's four children. She was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, Kent. She was greatly aided by her English teacher, Miss Davis, who encouraged her to pursue acting. She became a member of an amateur dramatic society in Crayford, Kent whilst at school as well as appearing in many school productions. On leaving school she went on in 1964 to pursue further studies at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Quick was the first female president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society.
Her longtime partner was actor Bill Nighy and they have one daughter, the actress Mary Nighy (born 1984). They separated in 2008. The couple met in 1981 when co-starring in a play at the National Theatre in London. She was previously married to the actor Kenneth Cranham for a short time and had a relationship with Albert Finney which lasted seven years.
Quick spent seven years researching a book about her paternal family's life in India which has now been published (2009) by Virago with the title "A Tug on the Thread: From the British Raj to the British
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