Obituary: Gillian Gore - From the theatre to a career in journalism

Published: 5 February 2010
by JOSH LOEB

GILLIAN Gore, who has died aged 55, was born for the stage but turned her back on the world of acting to pursue a career in journalism. 
She grew up in the West End, the daughter of a theatre agent and producer, Morris Aza. Her uncle on her mother Sheila’s side was the actor Sidney Tafler and her aunt Hylda was married to the film director Lewis Gilbert.
After studying at Hampden Gurney school in Marylebone and Orange Hill grammar school in Edgware, she trained to be a secretary.
In the early 1970s she worked on the newsdesk of Visnews, an arm of the BBC that specialised in monitoring events around the world, before working in the school’s bursary department.
She became interested in spirituality and eventually moved to Sardinia with her husband two years before she was diagnosed with breast cancer last November.
Her husband Peter said: “She had a unique ability to take on other people’s problems and sort them out. She was always so full of life and wanting to help people. That was her mission.”
She is survived by Peter and her two sons, Sam and Jackson.