Tracy Reed (born 21 September, 1942, London) is an English actress.

She was born Clare Tracy Compton Pelissier, the daughter of the director Anthony Pelissier and the actress Penelope Dudley-Ward. During a film-acting career that lasted from the early 1960s until 1975, she appeared in about thirty movies. She is probably best known for her role as the mistress of General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) in Dr. Strangelove (1964). She has the only female part in that film but is seen in only one scene--when she answers the phone while Turgidson is in the bathroom (however, she is shown in the copy of Playboy magazine being read by Slim Pickens in the B-52 with a copy of Foreign Affairs strategically draped across her behind). She was also considered as a replacement for Diana Rigg in The Avengers.

Tracy Pelissier took the surname of her stepfather, Sir Carol Reed, following her mother's remarriage in 1948.

Family links

She is the granddaughter of the actress Fay Compton & the producer H.G.Pelissier, and the socialite Freda Dudley Ward & William Dudley Ward. Her great-uncle was the novelist Sir Compton Mackenzie. Her step cousin was the actor Oliver Reed.

Her daughter Lucy Fox (from her first marriage) married the Viscount Gormanston, who is the premier Viscount of Ireland.

Marriages

She has been married four times:

1. The actor Edward Fox (1958-1961) (divorced) - one daughter Lucy, Viscountess Gormanston
2. The actor Neil Hallett (divorced 1973)
3. The actor Bill Simpson (1974-1986) (widowed) - two daughters.
4. Married to Christopher McCabe - No children

Selected filmography

• The Way Ahead (1944) (as a baby)
• Our Man in the Caribbean (1962)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963) the only woman in the cast
• A Shot in the Dark (1964)
• Devils of Darkness (1965)
• You Must Be Joking! (1965)
• Casino Royale (1967)
• Maroc 7 (1967)
• Hammerhead (1968)
• Random Quest (1969) (TV)
• Percy (1971)
• Melody (1971)
• 1000 Convicts and a Woman (1971)

External links

• Tracy Reed at the Internet Movie Database