Tributes to Coventry-born actress Billie Whitelaw

Whitelaw worked alongside Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. Credit: PA

Tributes have been paid to the acclaimed actress Billie Whitelaw, who has passed away at the age of 82. She died in a nursing home in London in the early hours of Sunday, her son told the BBC.

Miss Whitelaw, who was born in Coventry, was famed for working alongside the notable Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. She also starred in the 1990 movie The Krays and appeared in police comedy Hot Fuzz in 2007.

Miss Whitelaw was made a CBE in 1991.