The death has taken place of Betty Ann Norton who gave her name to one of the State’s foremost theatre schools, The Betty Ann Norton Theatre School in Rathmines, Dublin. For more than 60 years Ms Norton educated legions of school children and launched the careers of many television and stage stars as well as writers, producers and directors. Ms Norton died at the weekend at the Beacon hospital in Co Dublin. She was predeceased by her husband Michael J Cunneen in 2017, and is survived by her brother, the actor Jim Norton. As a child she went to St Louis Convent in Rathmines, “a small school in those days, in a Georgian building.

Source: The Irish Times June 06, 2020 15:34 UTC