Television Career
Whitelaw has also appeared frequently on television and won acclaim for her work. A very early TV appearance was in the first series of the long-running BBC1 police series, Dixon of Dock Green (1955), as Mary Dixon, daughter of George (Jack Warner). She also appeared as a woman who tries to join Robin Hood's outlaw band in an episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series), The Bride of Robin Hood. She won a BAFTA award as Best Actress for her performance in The Sextet (1972), the BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Wessex Tales (1973), A Tale of Two Cities (1980), A Murder of Quality (1991), Duel of Hearts (1991), Firm Friends (1992-1994) with Madur Jaffrey, Jane Eyre (1996), Merlin (1998) and A Dinner of Herbs (2000).
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