Stella Linden (born Stella Maris Marsden on 5 June 1919 - 23 January 2005) was an actress,stage director, author and script/screenwriter, best known for mentoring playwright John Osborne and for writing the film Two a Penny. She was the wife of actor-manager Terence Edward Duff, better known by his stage name Patrick Desmond, who had been running his own touring and repertory companies since 1929 at the age of 21. She died in 2005 in New Mexico.