Mandy Rice-Davies

Marilyn Foreman 21 October 1944 18 December 2014 better known as Mandy RiceDavies was a Welsh model and showgirl best known for her association with Christine Keeler and her role in the Profumo affair which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963 RiceDavies was born near Llanelli Wales and during her childhood moved to Solihull Warwickshire Her father was a policeman before becoming a technologist for Dunlop Rubber and her mother was a former actress She attended Sharmans Cross Secondary Modern School As a teenager she worked at Woods Farm in Shirley assisting with the horse yard there She appeared older than her age and at 15 she got a Saturday job as a clothes model at the Marshall Snelgrove department store in Birmingham At 16 she went to London as Miss Austin at the Earls Court Motor Show RiceDavies appeared in a number of television and film productions including Absolutely Fabulous and episode 6 of the first series of Chance in a Million Her film career included roles in Nana the True Key of Pleasure 1982 Black Venus 1983 and Absolute Beginners 1986 as the mother of Colin whose father was played by Ray Davies from The Kinks In the 1989 film Scandal about the Profumo affair Bridget Fonda portrayed RiceDavies alongside Joanne Whalley as Keeler RiceDavies died from lung cancer aged 70 on 18 December 2014 in London