She looked fragile, innocent and vulnerable on stage, but the actor Emily Richard, who has died aged 76, was strong, beautiful and radiant, with big brown eyes and a transfixing stare.
In the 1970s she was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company under Trevor Nunn and Terry Hands that came to fulfilment in David Edgar’s 1980 adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby, in which she played Kate Nickleby – a still centre in a teeming production by Nunn and John Caird that went to Broadway in 1981 and became a Channel 4 film.
