Sheila Beryl Grant Attenborough, Baroness Attenborough (born 5 June 1922), known professionally by her maiden name Sheila Sim, is an English film and theatre actress and the wife of actor and director Richard Attenborough. Sheila Sim was born one year before her husband, whom she married in 1945.
She was mainly active as an actress in the 1940s and 1950s: amongst her credits are the role in the Powell and Pressburger 1944 film, A Canterbury Tale;...
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Sheila Beryl Grant Attenborough, Baroness Attenborough (born 5 June 1922), known professionally by her maiden name Sheila Sim, is an English film and theatre actress and the wife of actor and director Richard Attenborough. Sheila Sim was born one year before her husband, whom she married in 1945.
She was mainly active as an actress in the 1940s and 1950s: amongst her credits are the role in the Powell and Pressburger 1944 film, A Canterbury Tale; she starred alongside her husband in the Boulting brothers' The Guinea Pig of 1948; and opposite Anthony Steel in 1954's West of Zanzibar.
In theatre, she notably co-starred with her husband in the first production of The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie, which opened in 1952 (creating the role of "Mollie Ralston"). This thriller has since become the world's longest-running production of a play.
After recruitment by Noel Coward, Lady Attenborough has actively served the Actors' Charitable Trust for more than 60 years. She was instrumental in the...
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