Lou Gish

Infobox actress
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birthname = Louise Curram
birthdate = birth date|1967|05|27
location = London, England, UK
flagicon|England flagicon|UK
deathdate = death date and age|2006|02|20|1967|05|27 (cancer)
deathplace = London, England, UK
occupation = Actress
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Lou Gish (27 May 1967 – 20 February 2006) was an English stage, film and television actress.

She was born as Louise Curram in 1967, the elder daughter of the actor Roland Curram and the actress Sheila Gish. Her partner at her death was Nicholas Rowe. She acted with her sister Kay Curram in "King Lear" at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2005. She was raised in London and originally saw herself as an artist rather than an actress. She trained in Camberwell and went on to gain a BA Honours degree at the Camberwell College of Arts. However, a role in a fringe play in Paddington saw her land an agent, and this convinced her to follow in the thespian footsteps of her family.

Death

She died of cancer at the age of 38. Her death came less than a year after that of her mother, in March 2005, who was also a cancer victim. Both mother and daughter were buried at Highgate Cemetery.

Film and television career

* "Game On" - "Bruce Willis & Robert De Niro Holding a Fish" (1996)
* "Holding the Baby" (1997)
* "Bent" (1997)
* "Microsoap" (1998)
* "Hope and Glory" (1999)
* "Casualty" - "Blood Brothers" (2000)
* "Without Motive" (2000)
* "Where the Heart Is" - "Runaways" (2001)
* "Coupling" (2001-2002)
* "The Vice" - "One More Time" (2002)
* "Wire in the Blood" - "Shadows Rising" (2002)
* "Doctors" - "High Anxiety" (2004)
* "Casualty" - "Love's Labours ... Lost" (2004)
* "New Tricks" (2005)

Theatre career

* "King Lear" (Chichester Festival Theatre 2005, as Goneril)

External links

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