| Individual or organisational biography | Gay Hamilton (born 29 April 1943, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire) is a Scottish actress. Her filmography notably includes Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (where she played Barry's cousin Nora Brady) and Ridley Scott's The Duellists. In the late 1960s/early 1970s, she was love interest and later wife of Detective Chief Superintendent John Watt (played by Frank Windsor) in the TV series Softly, Softly and its Taskforce spin-off. She played the wife of Anton Zoref (Ian McShane) in the 1974 Space: 1999 episode "Force of Life". In later years she has worked on television programmes such as Eastenders |
| Custodial History | Gay Hamilton kept the ribbon prop from the shoot of Barry Lyndon. Having attended an event at the Barbican Centre during their Stanley Kubrick season and seeing an exhibition from the Kubrick Archive came to visit in March 2008. She was later invited to take part in the Inspired by Kubrick elective course at the London College of Communication where she presented the ribbon to the archive. |