Jo Maxwell-Muller
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Josephine Ann Maxwell-Muller (July 1944–30 October 2010) (Mrs Jo Heaton) was a British actress.
She was born in Hendon in London in 1944, the daughter of Flight Lieutenant (later Wing Commander) Leon Maxwell-Muller OBE, RAF (1913–1984)[1] and Beryl née Hobbs (1915–2008).[2]
1964 was a productive year for Maxwell-Muller. On the insistence of Christopher Plummer she was cast as Ophelia in the BBC's television production Hamlet at Elsinore (1964), a co-production with the Danmarks Radio Company. In 1964 she played Bertha, the daughter, opposite Trevor Howard in Strindberg's play The Father. Also in 1964 Maxwell-Muller played Consuelo in He Who Gets Slapped at the Hampstead Theatre.[3] In 1966 Jonathan Miller cast her in the non-speaking role of Alice's sister in his BBC television play Alice in Wonderland. In 1971 she played Cathleen the maid opposite Laurence Olivier as James in Long Day's Journey into Night at the National Theatre in London.
In 1974 she married the actor Anthony Heaton (1947–1987) in Birmingham in the West Midlands.[4]
On her death in Hampstead in 2010 her ashes were interred in the grave of her husband in Hampstead Cemetery.
References
- ^ Flt. Lt. Leon Maxwell-Muller, The London Gazette, 19 December 1939, pg. 8402
- ^ Josephine A Maxwell-Muller in England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth, Ancestry.com
- ^ "WEEK IN THE THEATRE: He Has Rejected the World". The Stage. November 19, 1964. p. 13.
- ^ Josephine A Maxwell-Muller in England & Wales, Civil Marriage Registration (1974), Ancestry.com