- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAdrienne Riccoboni
- Height1.70 m
- Born and brought up in Scotland, Adrienne Corri attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London as a teenager and then appeared on both the English and American stage. While still a teenager, she made her film debut in The Romantic Age (1949). One of her most memorable film performances was in Stanley Kubrick's Orange mécanique (1971) as the victim of the bizarre gang-rape by Alex and his Droogs. In addition to film, she also frequently worked in television and continued in theater, specializing in fiery, flamboyant characters throughout her career.- IMDb mini biography by: Lyn Hammond
- SpouseDaniel Massey(September 30, 1961 - 1967) (divorced)
- Her flaming bright red hair
- Snapped at Stanley Kubrick, who is famous for doing a great deal of takes for every scene, while doing the rape scene with Malcolm McDowell and his "droogs" in Orange mécanique (1971). The scene required for her to be completely nude, and Stanley's continuous calls for another take made her boil over in the end. She resented Kubrick for years after the incident.
- After completing Orange mécanique (1971), Corri kept in touch with director Kubrick, who complained to her about the problem he had of losing socks whenever he did the washing, so for Christmas she gave him a pair of bright red socks, a humorous reference to her scene in Orange, where after Alex had finished snipping off her red pajama suit, she was naked except for a pair of red socks.
- Well-known expert on eighteenth-century portrait painting and the author of a book about the painter, Thomas Gainsborough.
- She was the third actress cast as Mrs Alexander in Orange mécanique (1971) after the previous two actresses (including Bernadette Milnes) quit the role due to the physical demands of playing a rape victim.
- Picturegoer magazine described her as having "no nice little-girl-next-door nonsense about her".
- On having little to do as a Christian martyr in Quo Vadis: I simply went to the studios to draw my salary and then my days were my own.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content