Polly Williams

Polly Williams was born in Sussex, England on 5th January 1950. She was the third child of the actor and dramatist Hugh Williams from his second marriage to the Australian-born actress and dramatist Margaret Vyner. She was educated at Cobham Hall in Kent and at finishing school in Madrid, Spain. She had a career as an actress and model. Her brothers were the poet Hugo Williams and the actor Simon Williams. She died in the London Clinic, following a long battle with cancer on 24th June 2004, aged 54. She is survived by her widower the actor Nigel Havers, two sons from her first marriage and a stepdaughter from her second.