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Betsy Brantley (born September 20, 1955) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress.

Brantley was born Rutherfordton, North Carolina
Rutherfordton, North Carolina

Rutherfordton is a town in Rutherford County, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,131 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Rutherford County, North Carolina....
. She is the older sister of producer/screenwriter Duncan Brantley, and formerly married to Simon Dutton
Simon Dutton

Simon Dutton is a United Kingdom actor, best known for playing the title role of Simon Templar in a series of Australian-produced television films in 1989, as well as 'Guy' in Not Going Out, a British sitcom....
 and Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh

Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film editing, and an Academy Award-winning film director....
. She is mother to Sarah Soderbergh.

Betsy studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama
Central School of Speech and Drama

The Central School of Speech and Drama was founded in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. It was there that she was discovered to film a movie with Sean Connery
Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winning Scotland actor and film producer who is best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films....
 entitled, Five Days One Summer
Five Days One Summer

Five Days One Summer is a 1982 in film drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Sean Connery. It was the last film that Zinnemann directed....
. Like Five Days One Summer, most of her films are based in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
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Betsy Brantley (born September 20, 1955) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress.

Brantley was born Rutherfordton, North Carolina
Rutherfordton, North Carolina

Rutherfordton is a town in Rutherford County, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,131 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Rutherford County, North Carolina....
. She is the older sister of producer/screenwriter Duncan Brantley, and formerly married to Simon Dutton
Simon Dutton

Simon Dutton is a United Kingdom actor, best known for playing the title role of Simon Templar in a series of Australian-produced television films in 1989, as well as 'Guy' in Not Going Out, a British sitcom....
 and Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh

Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film editing, and an Academy Award-winning film director....
. She is mother to Sarah Soderbergh.

Betsy studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama
Central School of Speech and Drama

The Central School of Speech and Drama was founded in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. It was there that she was discovered to film a movie with Sean Connery
Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winning Scotland actor and film producer who is best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films....
 entitled, Five Days One Summer
Five Days One Summer

Five Days One Summer is a 1982 in film drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Sean Connery. It was the last film that Zinnemann directed....
. Like Five Days One Summer, most of her films are based in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
. Her most famous role, perhaps, is her portrayal of Neely Pritt in the cult classic Shock Treatment
Shock Treatment

Shock Treatment is a 1981 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film-musical film and a follow up to the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show....
. She also played alongside Pierce Brosnan and Michael Caine in the film version of "The Fourth Protocol" and enjoyed a cameo in the Ashley Judd movie "Double Jeopardy".

Along with several other films, Betsy has been a cast member in quite a few television shows. These shows include Tour of Duty
Tour of duty

In the military, a tour of duty is a period of time spent at sea or assigned to service in a foreign country.For example, in World War II a tour of duty for a Royal Air Force bomber crew was 30 flights....
 and Second Noah
Second Noah

Second Noah was a television drama broadcast in the United States on American Broadcasting Company television from 1996 to 1997....
. On Tour of Duty, she played the role of Dr. Jennifer Seymour (later "Major Jennifer Seymour"). On Second Noah, she played Jesse Beckett, a veterinarian and the mother of eight adopted children.

She has also appeared as Elsie Cubitt in the Granada Television
Granada Television

Granada Television is the United Kingdom ITV contractor for North West England. It previously held the "North of England" weekday franchise, which also covered most of Yorkshire, from 1954 until 1968 when its broadcast area was divided into two franchises....
 production of 'The Dancing Men', from the The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle....
 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant was a Scotland author most noted for his stories about the Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger....
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