Mary Kerridge (April 3, 1914 – July 22, 1999) was an English actress and theatre director, who (with her husband, John Counsell) ran the Theatre Royal, Windso] and its in-house repertory company from the 1930s to the 1980s. Her daughter is the actress Elizabeth Counsell.

Biography

Born in Islington to Ernest Kerridge and Antoinette Fick, she attended Highbury Hill School from 1924 to 1928. Her family later moved to Esher, Surrey and she attended Wimbledon High School from January 1929 to July 1932, having taken her London University Higher Certificate in English, French, Modern History and German in June 1932. At University College London, she studied for the (one year) Intermediate Arts BA. She worked as a secretary, model and receptionist before making her name as an actress. In the middle of 1939 she married John Counsell, the managing director of the Theatre Royal, Windsor. She gave birth to twin daughters in 1942, one of them the actress Elizabeth Counsell.