---
name: "Renee Roberts"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/renee-roberts"
fi1m_id: "renee-roberts"
imdb_id: "nm0731513"
tmdb_id: 1229862
wikidata_id: "Q3522822"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 September 1908"
died: "6 February 1996"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:33:38.222727+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Renee Roberts

## Identity

Renee Roberts

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/renee-roberts
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** renee-roberts
- **IMDb ID:** nm0731513
- **TMDB ID:** 1229862
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3522822
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renee_Roberts, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3522822, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731513/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1229862

Actor. Born 24 September 1908 in England, UK. Died 6 February 1996.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 September 1908, England, UK
- **Died:** 6 February 1996
- **Also known as:** Irene Renee Roberts
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renee_Roberts, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3522822, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731513/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1229862

## Streaming the US now

- **BritBox:** [*Fawlty Towers*](https://film.one/tv/fawlty-towers.md) (90)

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## Biography

Renee Roberts (born Irene Roberts) was an English actress. She is best remembered for playing Miss Ursula Gatsby, one of the elderly residents at the hotel, in both series of the BBC sitcom *Fawlty Towers* (1975 and 1979).

She made numerous television appearances in Britain from the 1960s onwards. Other credits include a role in the 1983 episode of *Only Fools and Horses* and the film *What Became of Jack and Jill?* (1972). Roberts was married to actor Ronald Frankau; their daughter Rosemary Frankau was also an actress.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fawlty Towers* (1975), Fi1m 90, as Miss Gatsby — [page](https://film.one/tv/fawlty-towers.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Funny Blokes of British Comedy* (2005), as Miss Ursula Gatsby (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *The Duchess of Duke Street* (1976), series, as Mrs Brown
- *Fawlty Towers* (1975), series, as Miss Gatsby — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/fawlty-towers.md)
- *What Became of Jack and Jill?* (1972), as Neighbour

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/renee-roberts