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Sheila Mary Burrell was a British actress. A cousin of Laurence Olivier, she was born in Blackheath, London, the daughter of a salesman. She attended St John's, Bexhill-on-Sea and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Her first marriage to actor Laurence Payne was dissolved and she then married David Sim, a portrait and theatre photographer. She is primarily remembered in the United States for her performance as Lady Rochford in three episodes of the television series Six Wives of Henry VIII.
Birth Name
Sheila Mary Burrell
Born
Tuesday, 09 May 1922
Died
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Doctors and Nurses | Edie | 2004 |
William and Mary | Viney | 2003 |
Doctors | Dorothy Palmer | 2000 |
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception | Lady #1 | 1999 |
Always and Everyone | Virginia Henderson | 1999 |
Holby City | Agnes Moorhead | 1999 |
The Woodlanders | Grandma Oliver | 1998 |
Trial & Retribution | Mrs. Greenway | 1997 |
Jane Eyre | Lady Eshton | 1996 |
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Agnes Stubbs | 1996 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Doctors and Nurses | Edie | 2004 |
William and Mary | Viney | 2003 |
Doctors | Dorothy Palmer | 2000 |
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception | Lady #1 | 1999 |
Always and Everyone | Virginia Henderson | 1999 |
Holby City | Agnes Moorhead | 1999 |
The Woodlanders | Grandma Oliver | 1998 |
Trial & Retribution | Mrs. Greenway | 1997 |
Jane Eyre | Lady Eshton | 1996 |
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Agnes Stubbs | 1996 |
Bramwell | Mrs. Lomax | 1995 |
Cold Comfort Farm | Ada Doom | 1995 |
Heartbeat | Nellie Pratt / Mrs. Hutton | 1992 |
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Lady #1 | 1992 |
Afraid of the Dark | Meg | 1991 |
The Darling Buds of May | Mrs. Kinthley | 1991 |
Devices and Desires | Miss Beasley | 1991 |
A Quiet Conspiracy | Madame Coursaux | 1989 |
American Roulette | Raul's Neghbour | 1988 |
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery | Dr. Baring | 1987 |
Casualty | Agnes Spencer | 1986 |
Brush Strokes | Isabel / Mrs. Pettijohn | 1986 |
The Brief | Rose Brennan / Mrs. Jenkinson | 1984 |
Crimewatch UK | Dr. Danuta Kaczmarska | 1984 |
Tales of the Unexpected | Lady Eleanor Benson | 1979 |
Anna Karenina | Princess Myagky | 1977 |
The Feathered Serpent | Keelag | 1976 |
Crown Court | Dr. Germaine Elwes | 1972 |
The Six Wives of Henry VIII | Lady Rochford | 1970 |
Laughter in the Dark | Miss Porly | 1969 |
The Desperados | Emily Galt | 1969 |
Hell Is Empty | Judge | 1967 |
ITV Playhouse | Eliza / Miss Rawley | 1967 |
Adam Adamant Lives! | Matron Mavis Unsworth | 1966 |
BBC Play of the Month | Mrs. Northrop | 1965 |
Out of the Unknown | Minnim | 1965 |
The Wednesday Play | Liz | 1964 |
Detective | Ethel Guppy | 1964 |
Paranoiac | Aunt Harriet | 1963 |
The Pursuers | Maria | 1961 |
The Avengers | Mrs. Jupp | 1961 |
Maigret | Francoise Bourcicault | 1959 |
No Hiding Place | Gwen Harris / Doris Denham | 1959 |
The Dawn Killer | Mrs. Hoddy | 1959 |
Women Without Men | Babs | 1956 |
Blonde Bait | Bates | 1956 |
Colonel March of Scotland Yard | Joan Forsythe | 1955 |
ITV Television Playhouse | Rose | 1955 |
Dixon of Dock Green | Mrs. Lee | 1955 |
Colonel March Investigates | Joan Forsythe | 1953 |
Black Orchid | Annette | 1953 |
The Rossiter Case | Honor / Honor Rossiter | 1951 |
Cloudburst | Lorna Dawson | 1951 |
The Man in Black | Janice | 1950 |