The L-Shaped Room Academy Award for Best Actress. A 27-year-old French woman, Jane Fosset (Caron), arrives alone at a run down boarding house in Notting Hill, London, moving into an L-shaped room. Beautiful but withdrawn, she encounters the residents of her house, each a social outsider in his or her own way, including a gay black guitar player. Jane is pregnant and has no desire to marry the father. On her first visit to a doctor, she wants to find out if she really is pregnant and consider her options. The doctor's facile assumption that she must want either marriage or an abortion
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