Frances de la Tour of Fire" (2005) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1" (2010). Other television roles include Emma Porlock in the Dennis Potter serial "Cold Lazarus" (1996), Headmistress Margaret Baron in BBC sitcom "Big School" and Violet Crosby in the sitcom "Vicious". De la Tour was born in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, to Moyra (née Fessas) and Charles de la Tour (1909–1982). The name was also spelt De Lautour, and it was in this form that her birth was registered in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in the third quarter of 1944. She has French, Greek, and Irish ancestry. She was educated at
Frances de la Tour Memoirs" in 1986. She again won the Olivier, this time for Best Supporting Actress for Martin Sherman's play about Isadora Duncan, "When She Danced", with Vanessa Redgrave at the Globe Theatre in 1991 and played Leo in "Les Parents terribles" at the Royal National Theatre in 1994, earning another Olivier nomination. In 1994, de la Tour co-starred with Maggie Smith in Edward Albee's "Three Tall Women" at the Wyndham's and with Alan Howard in Albee's "The Play About the Baby" at the Almeida in 1998. In 1999, she returned to the RSC to play Cleopatra opposite Alan Bates in "Antony