- She was still appearing on stage in charity galas in her late 90s.
- She was awarded the DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours List at 100 years old for her services to drama. She was the oldest person to receive the honor until Olivia de Havilland was named a dame just before her 101st birthday in 2017.
- British actress, mainly in theatre. Silent footage exists of her stage performance as Juliet opposite Sir John Gielgud's Romeo from the early 1920s.
- Lifelong friend and companion of Marda Vanne.
- A memorial service was held for her at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London on 18 June 1992.
- A lesbian, for many years her partner was South African actress Marda Vanne.
- She was born in London of a Welsh family; the name "Ffrangcon" is said to originate from a valley in Snowdonia.
- She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1991, aged 100, and was the oldest-ever appointee to that honour until fellow actress Olivia de Havilland received her damehood in 2017.
- In the 1980s, well into her nineties, she appeared on the Wogan chat show, in which she recited, word for word, the famous death scene of Juliet.
- Ffrangcon-Davies made her stage debut in 1911, as a singer as well as an actress, and received encouragement in her career from Ellen Terry.
- Her long association with the heroines of William Shakespeare's plays began with Cordelia in King Lear (1924) and later included Cleopatra, Portia, Titania, Ophelia, Regan, Beatrice, Queen Katharine, Lady Macbeth, and Juliet, which was her signature role.
- Ffrangcon-Davies retired from the stage in 1970, but continued to appear on radio and television; in one such appearance, broadcast on Christmas Day, 1990, a month before her 99th birthday, she featured in the BBC radio show, With Great Pleasure, in which stars chose favourite readings, spoken by others, and by themselves. She chose "The Kingdom of God", by Francis Thompson, read by Alec McCowen; a passage from The Merchant of Venice, read by herself, and Anna Massey and Alec McCowen; "These I Have Loved", by Rupert Brooke, read by Anna Massey; and, a part of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence, whom she once met, read by Alec McCowen; it was included in the 1992 compilation cassette With Great Pleasure.
- Ffrangcon-Davies played Lady Macbeth for almost an entire year in 1942 opposite John Gielgud's Macbeth.
- She made two appearances on Desert Island Discs: one broadcast on 8 October 1962, and the other on 19 June 1988.
- She made her final acting appearance at the age of 100, in the feature-length special episode of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series The Master Blackmailer (1992).
- She won the Evening Standard Award in 1958 for her performance as Mary Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night.
- In 1925, Ffrangcon-Davies played Tess in a stage version of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, including a special presentation for its author, Thomas Hardy.
- In 1924, she played Juliet opposite John Gielgud as Romeo, and Gielgud was grateful to her for the rest of his life for the kindness she showed him, casting her as Queen Anne in Richard of Bordeaux in 1934.
- In 1938, Ffrangcon-Davies appeared with Ivor Novello in a production of Henry V at Drury Lane. Later the same year, she appeared as Mrs. Manningham in the first production of Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton.
- She became a legend on the classical British stage during her 80-year-long acting career. After she made her debut in a walk-on part in A Midsummer Nights' Dream (1911), Ffrangcon-Davies played bit parts and sang in the chorus. By 1921 she was taking leading roles with the Birmingham Repertory Company, where she originated the role of Eve in George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah (1923).
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