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Sheila, Lady Attenborough, neé Sim (born June 5, 1922 in Liverpool), is a British film and theatre actor, and the wife of Richard, Lord Attenborough since 1945.

Lady Attenborough was mainly active as an actor in the 1940s and 1950s; amongst her credits are the rôles in the 1944 film A Canterbury Tale, and in West of Zanzibar from 1954. In theatre, she notably co-starred with her husband in the first production of The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie in 1952, which has since become the world's longest-running production of a play.

More recently, Lady Attenborough has been a significant benefactor to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (normally known as "RADA"), where she originally trained; her husband has been RADA's president since 2003, filling the .

The then Sheila Beryl Grant Sim married the then Richard Attenborough in 1945. They had three children: Charlotte, Michael, and Jane. Jane, along with her mother-in-law Jane Holland and daughter Lucy, was killed in the Indian Ocean tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004. Michael and Charlotte are both involved, like their parents, in the dramatic professions, he as a director, she as an actor. Her husband was raised to the Peerage in 1993, and so she became Lady Attenborough. Lady Attenborough's brother, Gerald Sim, is also an actor.

External link

• Sheila Sim at the Internet Movie Database

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