Joanna Dunham (born 6 May 1936) is an English actress, best noted for her work on stage and television. She has also appeared in several major films. In 1956 she attended RADA, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the same year as Susannah York and Brian Epstein. Epstein later became the manager of the Beatles. Peter O’Toole and Albert Finney left the previous year.   Dunham was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. As a teenaged actress she first gained notice for playing Juliet in the 1962 Old Vic production of Romeo and Juliet, under the direction of Franco Zeffirelli, which was performed in a five-month, 13-city U.S. tour.^[1] Her first television role had come four years earlier (1958), when she appeared as Louka in the Arms and the Man episode of BBC Sunday-Night Theatre. As of 1998 Dunham had appeared in at least 45 different television series or productions.   In 1965 she went to the U.S. to play ‘Mary Magdaleine@ in “The Greatest Story Ever Told”.