The L-Shaped Room The L-Shaped Room The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama film, directed by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young French woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London boarding house, befriending a young man in the building. It stars Leslie Caron and Tom Bell. The work is considered part of the kitchen sink realism school of British drama. The film was adapted by Bryan Forbes from the novel by Lynne Reid Banks. Leslie Caron's performance won her the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for best actress, and also earned her a nomination for the
Lynn Rainbow Lynn Rainbow Lynn Carol Rainbow-Reid (born 19 September 1942) is an Australian-based theatre and television actor who was educated at Ascham School, The Sorbonne and Dante Alighieri in Italy. Lynn was the daughter of Judge Alfred Rainbow and the granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Fuller a theatrical entrepreneur. She became widely recognisable in the early 1970s on Australian television, taking many guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas "Homicide", "Division 4" and "Matlock Police". She also appeared in an episode of popular situation comedy series "The Group". From March 1972 played the original regular character of Sonia in the phenomenally