Article: 'Day after day and night after night, I'm in this shaking fear. What am I so terribly frightened of? Life itself I think. . .' HOW A WELSH SCREEN GODDESS DISCOVERED FAME & FORTUNE WAS SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH.(Features)

SHE remains the only Welsh actress ever to be nominated for an Oscar.

But despite being one of Wales' most talented stars - triumphing with films like Saturday Night, Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life - and marriage to superstar Rex Harrison, Rachel Roberts committed suicide in 1980, aged 53.

Here, as part of our occasional series - Welsh Screen Legends - RACHEL MAINWARING looks at the life of Roberts, who started life in Llanelli as a daughter of a Baptist minister and ended it as a heart-broken, tragic screen goddess. . .

RACHEL Roberts was ...

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