Editing Wendy Hiller (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Wendy Hiller.jpg|thumb|left|Hiller in later years]]
In the early 1940s, Hiller and husband Ronald Gow moved to [[Beaconsfield]], [[Buckinghamshire]], where they brought up two children, Ann (1939–2006) and Anthony (b. 1942), and lived together in the house called "Spindles" (now demolished). Ronald Gow died in 1993, but Hiller continued living at their home until her death a decade later. When not performing on stage or screen, she lived a completely private domestic life, insisting on being referred to as Mrs. Gow rather than by her stage name.

Regarded as one of Britain's great dramatic talents, she was made an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 1971 and raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in 1975.

In 1984 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester. In 1996, Hiller was honoured by the [[London Film Critics Circle]] with the [[Dilys Powell]] Award for excellence in British film. Her style was disciplined and unpretentious, and she disliked personal publicity. The writer [[Sheridan Morley]] described Hiller as being remarkable in her "extreme untheatricality until the house lights went down, whereupon she would deliver a performance of breathtaking reality and expertise."<ref>{{cite news|
 url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1430166/Dame-Wendy-Hiller.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1430166/Dame-Wendy-Hiller.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| title=Dame Wendy Hiller| newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]| date=16 May 2003 |location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Despite a busy professional career, throughout her life she continually took an active interest in aspiring young actors by supporting local amateur drama societies,<ref>[http://www.youngtheatre.org.uk/archive/patrons.htm "The Young Theatre Archive: The Patrons of The Young Theatre"]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928102034/http://www.youngtheatre.org.uk/archive/patrons.htm |date=28 September 2007}} ''The Young Theatre Archive''.</ref> as well as being the president of the [[Chiltern Shakespeare Company]] until her death. Chronic ill health necessitated her eventual retirement from acting in 1992. She spent the last decade of her life in quiet retirement at her home in Beaconsfield, where she died of natural causes at the age of 90.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/17/arts/wendy-hiller-spirited-actress-dies-at-90.html| title=Wendy Hiller Spirited Actress, Dies at 90| date=May 17, 2003| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| url-access=subscription}}</ref>