British film actress Jean Simmons, who played Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and sang with Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls, has died aged 80.
Simmons, who won an Emmy Award for her role in The Thorn Birds in the 1980s, died at her home in Santa Monica on Friday, her agent told the Los Angeles Times.
She had been suffering from lung cancer for some time.
The actress, who moved to Hollywood in 1950, first made her name playing Estella in 1946's Great Expectations.
