Stephanie Cole, OBE (born 5 October 1941) is an English stage, television, and film actress, best known for playing characters a great deal older than her actual age.
Cole was born in Solihull, then Warwickshire, now West Midlands. She trained at the world famous Bristol Old Vic Theatre School 1958–1960 and like most actors of that time went on to consolidate her acting skills in repertory theatres around the United Kingdom. She made her stage de...
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Stephanie Cole, OBE (born 5 October 1941) is an English stage, television, and film actress, best known for playing characters a great deal older than her actual age.
Cole was born in Solihull, then Warwickshire, now West Midlands. She trained at the world famous Bristol Old Vic Theatre School 1958–1960 and like most actors of that time went on to consolidate her acting skills in repertory theatres around the United Kingdom. She made her stage debut at the age of seventeen playing the 90-year-old Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit. Ironically at the age of 63 she returned to the same role when the play was revived at the West End's Savoy Theatre in 2004.
One of her most recognised and popular roles was of Dr Beatrice Mason in the hugely popular series Tenko, a drama which chronicled the lives of British women in Singapore after the Japanese invasion and their consequent confinement in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp. The series pulled no punches in portraying the horrific...
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