Stephanie Michel Beacham (born 28 February 1947) is an English actress.
Beacham, one of four children, was born in Barnet, North London, England, the daughter of Joan, a housewife, and a father who was an insurance executive and the managing director of the Grosvenor estate.
Shortly after birth, she was diagnosed as being completely deaf in her right ear, as her mother had contracted chicken pox during her pregnancy. She has about 75% of normal h...
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Stephanie Michel Beacham (born 28 February 1947) is an English actress.
Beacham, one of four children, was born in Barnet, North London, England, the daughter of Joan, a housewife, and a father who was an insurance executive and the managing director of the Grosvenor estate.
Shortly after birth, she was diagnosed as being completely deaf in her right ear, as her mother had contracted chicken pox during her pregnancy. She has about 75% of normal hearing capacity in her left ear. After leaving her girls' (Roman Catholic) church school, Convent of the Sacred Heart, Beacham travelled to Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris, France to study mime with Étienne Decroux, before attending Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Beacham's initial goal was to teach dance movement to deaf children, but she began a career in modelling, and was then cast for several parts in films. During an interview, thinking Barnet sounded a bit boring, she told a reporter from the Darlington Echo she was born...
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