Margaret Lockwood (1916-1990) was a British actress, one of her country's most celebrated film stars in the 1930s and 1940s. She achieved international fame with Alfred Hitchcock's thriller *The Lady Vanishes* (1938) and consolidated her status with films such as *The Stars Look Down* (1940). Her career reached its peak during the 1940s thanks to the Gainsborough melodramas, where she specialised in roles as anti-heroines and strong, unscrupulous women. Films such as *The Man in Grey* (1943) and especially *The Wicked Lady* (1945), one of the biggest commercial successes of the era in the United Kingdom, established her as an icon. Thanks to this enormous popularity, she won the Daily Mail National Film Award for most popular British actress for three consecutive years. After her film career declined in the 1950s, she successfully turned to the stage and television. In 1981, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her services to the arts.