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Biography
Sheila Gish (23 April 1942 – 9 March 2005) was a British stage and television actress. She was born Sheila Anne Gash in Lincoln, studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and made her stage debut with a repertory company. Her first starring role in the West End was as Bella in Robert and Elizabeth. She continued to be best known for her stage work, but she also appeared in many television dramas, from The First Churchills (in which she played Mary of Modena) to the successful adaptation of Love in a Cold Climate (2001) in which she played the eccentric and outrageous Lady Montdore. She had two daughters: the actresses Kay Curram and Lou Gish (1967–2006) by her first husband, the actor Roland Curram. While filming That Uncertain Feeling for BBC2 in 1985, she met actor Denis Lawson, who was to become her second husband. She rarely appeared on film, her most notable performances being as Anna in the Merchant-Ivory film Quartet (1981) and as Mrs Norris in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1999). She is also known for her appearance in the 1986 film Highlander as Rachel El
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Sheila Gish
Sheila Gish (23 April 1942 – 9 March 2005) was a British stage and television actress. She was born Sheila Anne Gash in Lincoln, studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and made her stage debut with a repertory company. Her first starring role in the West End was as Bella in Robert and Elizabeth. She continued to be best known for her stage work, but she also appeared in many television dramas, from The First Churchills (in which she played Mary of Modena) to the successful adaptation of Love in a Cold Climate (2001) in which she played the eccentric and outrageous Lady Montdore.
She had two daughters: the actresses Kay Curram and Lou Gish (1967–2006) by her first husband, the actor Roland Curram. While filming That Uncertain Feeling for BBC2 in 1985, she met actor Denis Lawson, who was to become her second husband. She rarely appeared on film, her most notable performances being as Anna in the Merchant-Ivory film Quartet (1981) and as Mrs Norris in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1999).
She is also known for her appearance in the 1986 film Highlander as Rac
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Sheila Gish
For an actress of such flawless, delicate beauty, the facial cancer that struck Sheila Gish at the peak of her career was a particularly cruel blow. But the spirit and strength that made such a telling fusion with her fragile allure in many of Gish's finest performances - and which led her to make a courageous radical change of direction in mid-career - stamped her indomitable reaction to her later hurdles.
Sheila Gish, actress: born Lincoln 23 April 1942; married first Roland Curram (two daughters; marriage dissolved), second Denis Lawson; died London 9 March 2005.
For an actress of such flawless, delicate beauty, the facial cancer that struck Sheila Gish at the peak of her career was a particularly cruel blow. But the spirit and strength that made such a telling fusion with her fragile allure in many of Gish's finest performances - and which led her to make a courageous radical change of direction in mid-career - stamped her indomitable reaction to her later hurdles.
An army child, born in 1942, even in her early years of education in Bath at the Royal School for
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