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All All. Sign In. Frances J De Lautour. Frances de la Tour born 30 July is an English actress, known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the television sitcom Rising Damp from until She is a Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner. She performed as Mrs. She reprised the role in the film. The name was also spelt De Lautour, and it was in this form that her birth was registered in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in the third quarter of She has French, Greek, and Irish ancestry.

She is the sister of actor and screenwriter Andy de la Tour. She has a son and a daughter. Over the next six years, she played many small roles with the RSC in a variety of plays, gradually building up to larger parts such as Hoyden in The Relapse and culminating in Peter Brook's acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which she played Helena as a comic "tour de force".

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In the s, she worked steadily both on the stage and on television. In , she played Mrs. She would also later appear in the film version. In December , she appeared in the London production of the highly acclaimed anti-Iraq war one-woman play Peace Mom by Dario Fo, based on the writings of Cindy Sheehan. In , she appeared in a West End revival of the farce Boeing-Boeing.