A British actress who was born in Whitechapel, London, England, United Kingdom on September 28, 1935 as Heather Christine Sears and died in Hinchley Wood, Escher, Surrey, England, United Kingdom on January 3, 1994. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1958 and won a...Read more BAFTA Award in the same year. She married director Anthony Masters in 1957, had 3 children, and remained with him until his death in 1990. Her most important works are: The Story of Esther Costello (1957), The Phantom of the Opera (1962), Roomat the Top (1959), and Four Desperate Men (1959). Born to a distinguished doctor in London, she rose to the stage at the age of five, spending the summer in Brittany, the cultural region of northwest France, where she learned to speak French fluently. After finishing school, she spent some time in France doing some voice work and dubbing and enjoyed accompanying a crowd of artists and writers, such as Pablo Picasso and Albert Camus. At the age of 16, she joined her older sister, Anne Sears at the Central School of Drama in London. She signed a contract with Romulus Films for a period of 7 years, and after her graduation, she worked at the Windsor Show Theater and presented her first work, The Love Match She presented her first film, Touch. and Go (1955) and presented the comedy film Dry Rot (1956). She debuted her television career in 1956, and in the same year, she stood on the stage of the London theater, replacing actress Marie Yury in the famous show Look Back in Anger. She won the British Film Academy Award, for Best British Actress. She worked on theater and film work until the mid-sixties. She reduced her work in theater and television because of her preoccupation with the care of her three children. In the 1970s, her career was prolific as she returned to the Haymarket Theater in Leicester and played the main roles in the classic plays of Shakespeare, Ibsen, Sophocles, Dostoevsky, and Brecht. In the last ten years of her life, she traveled extensively, spending many months in Mexico, China, Italy, North Africa, and Egypt. Her last movie was the 1989 movie The Last Day of School, where she played a working mother who supports her husband.
A British actress, born in Whitechapel, London on September 28, 1935. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1958 and won a BAFTA Award in the same year. She got married to...Read more the director Anthony Masters in 1957 and had 3 children, and she remained with him until his death in 1990. Among her most important works: The Story of Esther Costello (1957), The Phantom of the Opera (1962) and Four Desperate Men (1959). She died in London, on January 3, 1994 from the failure of many body systems.
A British actress who was born in Whitechapel, London, England, United Kingdom on September 28, 1935 as Heather Christine Sears and died in Hinchley Wood, Escher, Surrey, England,...Read more United Kingdom on January 3, 1994. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1958 and won a BAFTA Award in the same year. She married director Anthony Masters in 1957, had 3 children, and remained with him until his death in 1990. Her most important works are: The Story of Esther Costello (1957), The Phantom of the Opera (1962), Roomat the Top (1959), and Four Desperate Men (1959). Born to a distinguished doctor in London, she rose to the stage at the age of five, spending the summer in Brittany, the cultural region of northwest France, where she learned to speak French fluently. After finishing school, she spent some time in France doing some voice work and dubbing and enjoyed accompanying a crowd of artists and writers, such as Pablo Picasso and Albert Camus. At the age of 16, she joined her older sister, Anne Sears at the Central School of Drama in London. She signed a contract with Romulus Films for a period of 7 years, and after her graduation, she worked at the Windsor Show Theater and presented her first work, The Love Match She presented her first film, Touch. and Go (1955) and presented the comedy film Dry Rot (1956). She debuted her television career in 1956, and in the same year, she stood on the stage of the London theater, replacing actress Marie Yury in the famous show Look Back in Anger. She won the British Film Academy Award, for Best British Actress. She worked on theater and film work until the mid-sixties. She reduced her work in theater and television because of her preoccupation with the care of her three children. In the 1970s, her career was prolific as she returned to the Haymarket Theater in Leicester and played the main roles in the classic plays of Shakespeare, Ibsen, Sophocles, Dostoevsky, and Brecht. In the last ten years of her life, she traveled extensively, spending many months in Mexico, China, Italy, North Africa, and Egypt. Her last movie was the 1989 movie The Last Day of School, where she played a working mother who supports her husband.