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Dateline: 12th September, 2004
Fritha Goodey Actress Fritha Goodey was found dead in her London flat by her father on Wednesday 8th September. She had been stabbed and was pronounced dead at the scene. Two notes were found and police say that they are not treating her death as suspicious. A post-mortem will be carried out. She was due to appear in a tour of Rattigan's Man and Boy alongside David Suchet and David Yelland and directed by Maria Aitken later this month. Aged 31, she was "spotted" while still in her second year at LAMDA by director Di Travis, who cast her in her 2000 production of Remembrance of Things Past. Other stage work includes Mark Ravenhill's Some Explicit Polaroids, directed by Max Stafford-Clark at the New Ambassadors and several National Theatre productions, including She Stoops to Conquer and Romeo and Juliet. Toby Whale, head of casting at the National, said,“Fritha was an exceptionally talented young actress with an already established career spanning theatre, TV and film in both contemporary and classical roles. Everyone who knew her will be shocked and saddened.” Her film work includes About a Boy and the remake of Alfie, whilst on television she appeared in Roger Roger, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Stephen Poliakoff's The Lost Prince, When I’m 64, Sherlock, The Red Phone, Hearts and Bones and Dr Willoughby. She was known to set herself very high standards - fellow actors used to joke that she was always the first to arrive at rehearsals - and worried that she would not be able to live up to them. Her self-esteem, her family said, was also adversely affected because she had suffered from anorexia for a number of years. The production of Man and Boy, which opens at the Yvonne Arnaud on 22nd September before going on to a further eight venues, will still go ahead, although a spokesperson for the production said that everyone was devasted by the news of the death of a very popular member of the cast. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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