Joanna Venetia Invicta Stevenson was an English-American film and television actress.
Venetia Stevenson Parents: Meet Anna Lee, and Robert Stevenson
Anna Lee and Robert Stevenson were the parents of Venetia Stevenson.
Venetia’s father, Robert Stevenson was born on March 31, 1905, and died on April 30, 1986.
He was an English film screenwriter, director, and actor.
After directing several British films, including King Solomon’s Mines (1937), he was contracted by David O. Selznick and moved to Hollywood, but was loaned to other studios, directing Jane Eyre (1943).
He directed 19 films for The Walt Disney Company in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
Robert is best remembered for directing the Julie Andrews musical Mary Poppins (1964), for which Andrews won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Stevenson was nominated for Best Director.
Venetia’s mother Anna Lee, MBE was an English-American actress, labeled by studios “The British Bombshell”.
She was born on January 2, 1913, in Ightham, United Kingdom and died on May 14, 2004, in Beverly Hills, California, United States.
Born Joan Boniface Winnifrith in Ightham, she was the daughter of Bertram Thomas Winnifrith, a headmaster and Anglican rector, and his second wife, Edith Maude Digby-Roper.
