Adrienne Corri is an actress born on 13 November 1933 in Glasgow, Scotland of Italian parentage.

She is probably best known for her role as the rape victim Mrs Alexander in the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange.

Her numerous television credits include regular roles in A Family at War and You're Only Young Twice; and she also appeared as Mena in the Doctor Who story The Leisure Hive.

She also appeared on stage. According to the critic Michael Billington, Corri responded with her own abuse when the audience booed on the first night of John Osborne's The World of Paul Slickey. She raised two fingers to the audience and shouted "Go, f**k yourselves."' [1]

She was twice married: