Maria Aitken
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Aitken was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Sir William Aitken, a Conservative MP, and Penelope Aitken, whose father was John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby. Her grandfather was the UK Representative to Ireland (1939–49). She is a great-niece of newspaper magnate and war-time minister Lord Beaverbrook, and sister to former Conservative cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken. She attended Riddlesworth Hall Preparatory School in Norfolk, Sherborne School for Girls in Dorset and St Anne's College, Oxfor...
Known For
Filmography
Asylum
2005
as Claudia Greene
Jinnah
1998
as Edwina
Dare To Dream: The Making of Jinnah
1998
as Self
Fierce Creatures
1997
as Di
The Grotesque
1995
as Lavinia Freebody
Love on a Branch Line
1994
as Lady Flamborough
The Fool
1990
as Lady Amelia
A Fish Called Wanda
1988
as Wendy
Half Moon Street
1986
as The Hon. Maura Hardcastle
Poor Little Rich Girls
1984
as Kate Codd
Wogan
1982
as Self
Bedroom Farce
1980
as Susannah
Company and Co
1980
as Samantha Company
Whinfrey's Last Case
1979
as Mrs. Otway
Don't Be Silly
1979
as Ellie Bloom
Quiet as a Nun
1978
as Jemima Shore
Jemima Shore Investigates
1978
Romance
1977
as Lady Dolly
Out of the Trees
1976
Scotch on the Rocks
1973
as Sukey Dunmayne
Crown Court
1972
Crown Court
1972
as Jocelyn Bennington
The Edwardians
1972
as Jean Conan Doyle
The Regiment
1972
as Dorothy Saunders
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
as Lady Bothwell
Justice
1971
as Lady Beste
Film '72
1971
as Self
Codename
1970
as Mrs. Petrie
Manhunt
1970
as Madame Leonard
Some Girls Do
1969
as Robot Flight Attendant (uncredited)
Counterstrike
1969
as Mother
Doctor Faustus
1967
as Sloth
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Gwen Toynbee
ITV Playhouse
1967
as The Young Countess