Wife of actor Mark Rylance worked in various roles at Shakespeare’s Globe and had been diagnosed with cancer

The director and composer Claire van Kampen, the wife of the actor Mark Rylance, has died at the age of 71 after being diagnosed with cancer.

She died in the central German town of Kassel surrounded by her family on Saturday morning, a statement shared on behalf of Rylance and her daughter Juliet said. Saturday also marked Rylance’s 65th birthday.