Person Biography:
Lou Gish was a talented and spirited actress, born and raised in London. She was the daughter of actors Roland Curram and Sheila Gish, and demonstrated her range in her last two stage roles.
Gish began her career in the theatre, playing General Pinochet's Spanish lawyer in Thea Sharrock's production of Fermín Cabal's Tejas Verdas at the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, London. She then took on the role of Goneril in Steven Pimlott's production of King Lear at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester, where she played alongside David Warner.
In her early years, Gish was a bright and sassy actress, known for her natural poise and comic edge. She was the perfect, swish, middle-class Helena in Look Back in Anger at the Bristol Old Vic in 2001, and an effortlessly aristocratic Duchess of Malfi at the Salisbury Playhouse the following year.
Gish's television credits include appearances in such series as The Thin Blue Line, EastEnders, Casualty, Doctors, Wire in the Blood, Coupling, and Where the Heart Is. She was a regular on television screens over the last 10 years of her life.
In her personal life, Gish was the partner of actor Nicholas Rowe, and was survived by him, as well as her father, stepfather, and sister.
