To the Manor Born new Lord of the Manor is Richard DeVere, a recently widowed self-made millionaire who started his career on an East End fruit barrow and founded the "Cavendish Foods" supermarket chain, who to Audrey is simply a "grocer". DeVere brings his domineering mother, who is soon nicknamed by Audrey 'Mrs. Poo', her full name being Maria Jaroslava Vladimira Martinka Polouvicka. She reveals to Audrey, who does not like foreigners, that she and her son came to Britain in 1939 from Czechoslovakia, and that Richard, whose real name is Bedrich Polouvicek, is half-Polish (on his late father Lazlo's side) and half-Czechoslovakian. Mrs.
Trish Van Devere teenage girl filed a lawsuit against Van Devere and her son, alleging that the two conspired to imprison her at the Scotts' Malibu home, where she was physically and sexually abused. Trish Van Devere Trish Van Devere (born March 9, 1941) is an American actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the 1972 film "One Is a Lonely Number", and won a Genie Award for the 1979 film "The Changeling". She is the widow of actor George C. Scott. Van Devere was born as Patricia Louise Dressel in Tenafly, New Jersey. She was married to the actor