She made headlines for her marriage to British actor David Hemmings. Two decades later, she returned to the U.S. to appear in the primetime soap opera “Dallas.”
as 007 in “Live and Let Die” . By one account, she turned down the role because she had recently given birth to her first son. Ms. Hunnicutt could be alluring in one role, enigmatic in the next. She delivered acclaimed performances in BBC historical dramas, notably as the enigmatic Charlotte Stant, the ex-mistress of a nobleman, in a 1972 adaptation of Henry James’s “The Golden Bowl,” and as Tsarina Alexandra, the wife of Nicholas II of Russia, in the 1974 historical saga “Fall of Eagles.
Late in her career, Ms. Hunnicutt returned to the United States to appear on the last three seasons of “Dallas,” the hit prime-time soap opera that ended in 1991. She played an understated Englishwoman — Vanessa Beaumont, a former flame of J.R. Ewing who had secretly borne his child — rather than a native Texan like herself.
By then, she had made herself at home in Britain following a tumultuous first marriage to Hemmings. While he was an emblem of Swinging Sixties London, she was more demure, dismissive of sexual liberation and fond of the conservatism that she found in parts of her adopted country. “No false fingernails, no false eyelashes, your hair can be mussed up,” she remarked. “You’d never get away with that in Fort Worth.”
An only child, Virginia Gayle Hunnicutt was born in Fort Worth on Feb. 6, 1943. Her father, an Army colonel, served in the South Pacific during World War II and later oversaw an Army Reserve school in Fort Worth. Her mother was a homemaker.Ms. Hunnicutt studied theater arts at the University of California at Los Angeles, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1965.
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