Frances de la Tour in the film "The Book of Eli", directed by the Hughes brothers. In 2012, she appeared in the film "Hugo". Until 2012, she was also a patron for the performing arts group Theatretrain. From 2013 to 2016, de la Tour played the role of Violet Crosby in ITV sitcom "Vicious" with Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi. From 2013 to 2014, she portrayed headmistress Ms Baron in the BBC One sitcom "Big School". In April 2016, she joined the second series of "Outlander" as Mother Hildegarde. Politically, de la Tour is a socialist and was a member of the Workers' Revolutionary
Frances Erskine Inglis, 1st Marquise of Calderón de la Barca Frances Erskine Inglis, 1st Marquise of Calderón de la Barca Frances "Fanny" Erskine Inglis, later the Marquesa of Calderón de la Barca (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1804 – Madrid, Spain, 1882), was born to a family of the nobility and was a 19th-century travel writer best known for her 1843 account, "Life in Mexico", which is widely regarded by historians as one of the most influential Latin American travel narratives of the 19th century. Inglis was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1804, the 5th child of her Scottish, upper class parents. Her father was a distinguished lawyer (Writer to the Signet) and