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Pat Nye OBE (11 February 1908 – 11 April 1994) was an English actress-manager.〔(Obituary in ''The Independent'' 27 June 1994 )〕 She had a six decade career, known in her later years for playing formidable women. During World War II she served with distinction in the Wrens. ==Early life and theatre roles== Born as Patricia Dorothy Nye into a middle-class family in London in 1908, she was the daughter of Elizabeth Innes Hall (1878–1946) and Ralph Nye (1876–1961), a chartered accountant.〔(Patricia Dorothy Nye in the 1911 census ), Ancestry.com; accessed 30 November 2015.〕 Privately educated at the University of Lausanne and Lausanne Conservatory where she studied music, on her return to the UK she trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, making her professional debut in 1933 with the Rep Players at Croydon, playing Frau Feldman in ''Autumn Crocus'', in the same year playing Martha Brown in ''Gallows Glorious'' at the Old Shaftesbury Theatre. Later she joined the repertory company at the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea. From 1934 to 1937 she was the manager of the Theatre Royal in Margate, which had previously been the theatrical home of Sarah Thorne, another actress-manager. At other times she also managed the Park Theatre in Hanwell and the Pier Theatre in Lowestoft. She joined the Women's Royal Naval Service (Wrens) on the outbreak of World War II in 1939,〔(Appointment of Patricia Dorothy Nye to First Officer - ''London Gazette'' 31 May 1940 )〕〔(Patricia Dorothy Nye in ''The Navy List of Great Britain'' - The Ministry of Defence (1939) - Google Books pg 464 )〕 reaching the rank of Chief Officer and was awarded a military OBE. From 1949 Nye was the managing director and actress-manager of the Bedford Theatre in Camden Town, where she appeared as Lady Audley in ''Lady Audley's Secret'' which transferred to the Prince's Theatre in the West End. During Nye's time at the Bedford she introduced such melodramas as ''East Lynne'', ''The Bells'' and ''The Silver King''.〔 In the West End Nye appeared as Mrs Playbill in ''For Love or Money'' at the Ambassadors Theatre, and Miss Stulkeley in ''Preserving Mr Panmure'' at the Arts Theatre. She made her debut in the United States in 1951 in New York as Statateeta in ''Caesar and Cleopatra'' and Attendant on Octavia in ''Antony and Cleopatra'' at the Ziegfeld Theatre. She returned to Broadway in 1960 to play Hippobomene in ''Rape of the Belt'' and Lysistrata in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's ''The Apple Cart'' at the Martin Beck Theatre.〔〔(Nye on the Internet Broadway Database )〕〔(Nye on the Playbill Vault website )〕 Back in the UK, Nye returned to the Theatre Royal in Margate hoping to restore its fortunes, but competition from the newly popular medium of television and dropping visitor numbers lead to failure. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pat Nye」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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