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{{Infobox person
| name = Ursula Jeans
| image = File:Ursula Jeans.jpg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|5|5|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Shimla|Simla]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|4|21|1906|5|5|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[London]], [[England]], [[UK]]
| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1922–1968
| spouse = [[Robin Irvine]] (1931–1933; his death)<br>[[Roger Livesey]] (1937–1973; her death)
}}

'''Ursula Jeans''' (5 May 1906 – 21 April 1973) was an English film, stage, and television actress.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f72fd55|title=Ursula Jeans|website=Bfi.org.uk|access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/jtp/ursula-jeans|title=Ursula Jeans - Theatricalia|website=Theatricalia.com}}</ref>

==Biography==
Jeans was born in [[Shimla|Simla]], [[British Raj|British India]], to English parents, and brought up and educated in [[London]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/ursula-jeans-p35363|title=Ursula Jeans - Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos - AllMovie|website=AllMovie}}</ref> She was the youngest of three siblings. Her brother [[Desmond Jeans]] was a boxer and actor, and her elder sister, [[Isabel Jeans|Isabel]], was also an actress.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&q=ursula+jeans+roger+livesey+memorial+plaque&pg=PA375|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.|first=Scott|last=Wilson|date=16 September 2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476625997|via=Google Books}}</ref> In 1931 she appeared in [[Edward Knoblock]]'s ''[[Grand Hotel (play)|Grand Hotel]]'' at the [[Adelphi Theatre]].

Jeans made her stage debut in London in 1922,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/jtp/ursula-jeans/past?page=4|title=Ursula Jeans - Theatricalia|website=Theatricalia.com}}</ref> before joining the cast of the London production of ''[[The Play's the Thing (play)|The Play's the Thing]]'', an adaptation of [[Ferenc Molnár]]'s play, ''The Play at the Castle'' by [[P. G. Wodehouse]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://calmview.bham.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=XMS38/4314|title=UoB CALMVIEW2: Overview|website=calmview.bham.ac.uk}}</ref> The cast included [[Gerald du Maurier]], Ralph Nairn, [[Henry Daniell]] (before he went to Hollywood), and Henry Forbes-Robertson.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Occasional Performers in Plum's Plays|journal=Wooster Sauce/By the Way|date=March 2015|volume=59|page=1}}</ref>

She made her stage debut in [[New York City|New York]] in 1933.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/ursula-jeans-46893|title=Ursula Jeans – Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB|first=The Broadway|last=League|website=IBD.com}}</ref> Her first marriage was to actor [[Robin Irvine]] (1931–1933, his death). Her second marriage was to actor [[Roger Livesey]] from 1937 until her death.<ref name=nytimes>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/25/archives/ursula-jeans-dies-british-actress-66.html|title=Ursula Jeans Dies; British Actress, 66|date=25 April 1973|access-date=22 December 2018|website=Nytimes.com}}</ref> (Livesey's sister Maggie was already married to Desmond Jeans.) She appeared in one film with Livesey, ''[[The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp]]'' (1943).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp-v29185/cast-crew|title=The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) - Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger - Cast and Crew - AllMovie|website=AllMovie}}</ref> She entertained troops with [[Entertainments National Service Association|ENSA]] during [[World War II]], sometimes working with her husband. After the war, she continued acting, including starring as Mrs. Tarlton, in one of the eight episodes of the BBC's 'H M Tennant's Globe Theatre', in 1956; and, in a stage tour of Australia and New Zealand, between 1956–1958.

==Last years and death==
[[File:Roger Livesey St Pauls Covent Garden.jpg|thumb|right|Memorial plaque in [[St Paul's, Covent Garden|St Paul's]] in [[Covent Garden]] to Jeans and her husband [[Roger Livesey]]]]

Jeans made one appearance each, in [[Dixon of Dock Green]], in 1967, as Mrs. Regan; in [[Theatre 625]], as Mother Denis, '68; and as Ursula Benton, in [[The Root of All Evil? (1968 TV series)]], also in '68.

She continued to act into the 1970s and died of cancer in 1973, aged 66, some 18 months after her diagnosis.<ref name=nytimes/>

She shares a memorial plaque with her second husband, Roger Livesey, in the actors' church [[St Paul's, Covent Garden]].

==Partial filmography==
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* ''[[A Gipsy Cavalier]]'' (1922) - Minor Role (uncredited)
* ''[[The Virgin Queen (1923 film)|The Virgin Queen]]'' (1923) - Minor Role (uncredited)
* ''[[The Fake (1927 film)|The Fake]]'' (1927) - Maid
* ''[[Quinneys (1927 film)|Quinneys]]'' (1927) - Mabel Dredge
* ''[[The Passing of Mr. Quin]]'' (1928) - Vera, the Maid
* ''[[S.O.S. (1928 film)|S.O.S.]]'' (1928) - Lady Weir
* ''[[The Love Habit]]'' (1931) - Rose Pom Pom
* ''[[The Flying Fool (1931 film)|The Flying Fool]]'' (1931) - Morella Arlen
* ''[[The Crooked Lady]]'' (1932) - Joan Collinson
* ''[[Once Bitten (1932 film)|Once Bitten]]'' (1932) - Clare
* ''[[The Barton Mystery (1932 film)|The Barton Mystery]]'' (1932) - Ethel Standish
* ''[[Cavalcade (1933 film)|Cavalcade]]'' (1933) - Fanny Bridges
* ''[[On Thin Ice (1933 film)|On Thin Ice]]'' (1933) - Lady Violet
* ''[[I Lived with You]]'' (1933) - Gladys Wallis
* ''[[Friday the Thirteenth (1933 film)|Friday the Thirteenth]]'' (1933) - Eileen Jackson
* ''[[The Man in the Mirror (1936 film)|The Man in the Mirror]]'' (1936) - Veronica
* ''[[Dark Journey (film)|Dark Journey]]'' (1937) - Gertrude
* ''[[Storm in a Teacup (film)|Storm in a Teacup]]'' (1937) - Lisbet Skirving
* ''[[Over the Moon (1939 film)|Over the Moon]]'' (1939) - Millie
* ''[[The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp]]'' (1943) - Frau von Kalteneck
* ''[[Mr. Emmanuel]]'' (1944) - Frau Heinkes
* ''[[Gaiety George]]'' (1946) - Isobel Forbes
* ''[[The Woman in the Hall]]'' (1947) - Lorna Blake
* ''[[The Weaker Sex]]'' (1948) - Martha Dacre
* ''[[That Dangerous Age]]'' (1949) - Minor role
* Seven Women (1953) - Leonora - (Short)
* ''[[The Night My Number Came Up]]'' (1955) - Mrs. Robertson
* ''[[The Dam Busters (film)|The Dam Busters]]'' (1955) - Mrs. Wallis
* ''[[North West Frontier (film)|North West Frontier]]'' (1959) - Lady Windham
* ''[[The Green Helmet]]'' (1961) - Mrs. Rafferty
* ''[[The Queen's Guards]]'' (1961) - Mrs. Fellowes
* ''A Question of Fact'' (1962) - Grace Smith
* ''Boy with a Flute'' (1964, Short)
* ''[[The Battle of the Villa Fiorita]]'' (1965) - Lady Anthea (final film role)
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=0419982|name=Ursula Jeans}}
* {{IBDB name|id=46893}}
* [http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/search/people_sub_plays_all?forename=Ursula&surname=JEANS&job=Actor&pid=344&image_view=Yesamp;x=19amp;y=17 Performances listed on the Theatre Archive University of Bristol]

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