Anna Abigail Thynn, Marchioness of Bath (née Gyarmathy; 27 September 1943 – 17 September 2022), styled as Viscountess Weymouth between 1969 and 1992, also known by her stage name Anna Gaël, was a Hungarian-French actress and war correspondent.
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Early life
Anna Abigail Gyarmathy was born on 27 September 1943 in Budapest, Hungary. Her father, László Izsak Gyarmathy, was a mathematician and her mother was a poet. She moved to France as a child and began acting when she was fifteen.
Career
Anna Gyarmathy acted under the stage name 'Anna Gaël'. She starred in Hungarian, German, Italian, American and French films including Via Macau in 1966, Therese and Isabelle in 1968, Zeta One, aka The Love Factor in 1969, The Bridge at Remagen in 1969 and Take Me, Love Me in 1970. She retired from acting in 1981. She worked as a news reporter, covering conflicts in Vietnam, South Africa and the Northern Ireland conflict.
Personal life and death
She met Alexander Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, the son of Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, and Daphne Fielding, in Paris in 1959. She later became the Viscount's mistress while she was married to French film director Gilbert Pineau; in 1969, she and the Viscount married. Later that year she gave birth to their first child, Lady Lenka Thynn. In 1974, she gave birth to their second child, Ceawlin Thynn. In 1992, her husband succeeded his father as the 7th Marquess of Bath; he died in April 2020.
In 2013 her son married Emma McQuiston, the daughter of Nigerian businessman Oladipo Jadesimi. She reportedly disapproved of her son's marriage due to her daughter-in-law's African ancestry and thus did not attend the wedding.
Lady Bath died in Paris on 17 September 2022, aged 78.
Filmography
1962: Una storia milanese
1966: Via Macau
1967: Hell Is Empty
1967: Hotel Clausewitz
1967: To Commit a Murder
1968: Benjamin ou Les Mémoires d'un puceau
1968: Murder at the Grand Hotel (Le Démoniaque)
1968: Therese and Isabelle
1968: Béru et ces dames
1969: The House of the Missing Girls (Traquenards)
1969: Zeta One
1969: The Bridge at Remagen
1969: Delitto al circolo del tennis
1970: Take Me, Love Me
1970: Nana
1971: The Persuaders! (episode: "The Old, the New and the Deadly")
1973: Blue Blood
1974: Le Plumard en folie
1976: Dracula père et fils
1976: The Porter from Maxim's
1978: Sweeney 2
1978: L'Hôtel de la plage
