Valerie Hobson (14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998) was a
British actress who appeared in a number of films during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She was born
Babette Valerie Louise Hobson in
Larne,
County Antrim, in present-day
Northern Ireland. Her second husband was
John Profumo, a Government Minister who became the subject of a sensational sex scandal in 1963.