Nova Margery Pilbeam (15 November 1919 – 17 July 2015) was a British film and stage actress. She played leading roles in two Alfred Hitchcock movies of the 1930s. She made her last film in 1948.

Biography

In 1939 Pilbeam married Pen Tennyson, a great-grandson of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson and an assistant director to Hitchcock. Tennyson became a film director the year they were married but died in a 1941 plane crash while working as part of the Admiralty's instructional films unit. Pilbeam was married to BBC Radio journalist Alexander Whyte from 1950 until his death in 1972. Their child Sarah Jane was born in 1952.

In her last years, Pilbeam lived in Dartmouth Park, North London. She died on 17 July 2015 in London, aged 95.