Leighton, Margaret (1922–1976)

English actor. The leading lady in many stage and film productions, she became one of the best-known actors of her era. Her major plays include Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables in 1956 and Tennessee Williams's Pullitzer prizewinning The Night of the Iguana (1961). She was nominated for an Academy Award for the film The Go-Between (1971).

Leighton was born near Birmingham. She trained for the stage as a teenager, and joined the Old Vic under Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson in the 1940s. Her Broadway debut was made in 1946.