I adore Emelia Whitherspoon (gave her a key role in my longest fanfic). Dame Margaret Rutherford (on whom she is based) has long been a favourite of mine*
*since I saw her in Blythe Spirit in about 1973. And in The Importance of Being Ernest, obviously**
**we read Earnest in school in 1974, I was sulking as the teacher cast me as Miss Prism when I desperately wanted to be Lady Bracknell, obviously. To be fair, she chose well, I am much more like Miss Prism than Lady B. ***
*** the girl reading Lady Bracknell didnβt know the play and read The Line in a monotone. I, at 11 did know the play and did my best Dame Edith Evans impersonation at full volume βA HANDBAG?!?!β The teacher and I fell about laughing and I got beaten up after class. I was an odd child at 11. At 63, I have grown into my eccentricity.