Sheila Hancock

Sheila Hancock
Hancock in 2023
Born
Sheila Cameron Hancock

(1933-02-22) 22 February 1933 (age 91)
Alma materRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupations
  • Actress
  • theatre director
  • author
  • panellist
Years active1953–present
Spouses
  • Alec Ross
    (m. 1955; died 1971)
  • (m. 1973; died 2002)
Children2[1][2]
RelativesAbigail Thaw[3] (stepdaughter)

Dame Sheila Cameron Hancock DBE (born 22 February 1933) is an English actress, singer, and author. She has performed in both plays and musicals in London’s theatre scene, and her Broadway debut in Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1966) earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Play.

She won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for her role in Cabaret (2007) and was nominated at the Laurence Olivier Awards five other times for her work in Annie (1978), Sweeney Todd (1980), The Winter's Tale (1982), Prin (1989) and Sister Act (2010).

In film and television, her credits include Carry On Cleo (1964), The Wildcats of St Trinian's (1980), Buster (1988), Three Men and a Little Lady (1990), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) and Edie (2017).

  1. ^ Melanie Thaw at IMDb
  2. ^ Joanna Thaw at IMDb
  3. ^ Hancock, Sheila (2004). The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780747578215.