Hazel Douglas ✝

Hazel Douglas (2 November 1923 – 8 September 2016) was an English actress. She portrayed Nagini (disguised as Bathilda Bagshot) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. Her credits stretch back to the early days of television, and include Sunday Night Theatre, The Worst Week of My Life, Eyes Down, The IT Crowd, Gavin & Stacey, Run Fatboy Run, Casualty, The Royal, Asylum, The Bill, Where the Heart Is, Gimme Gimme Gimme, At Home with the Braithwaites, The Liver Birds and Vicious. She spent 11 happy years with Brian Rix’s company in the Whitehall farces, joining in 1954 for John Chapman’s Dry Rot, which ran for more than 1,400 performances. These comedies were also televised, and she appeared in episodes of the one-off comedies in the series Dial RIX (1962-63), with Rix and his wife Elspet Gray. Rix used to say that Hazel had the best double-take in the business.