Anne Stallybrass
Anne Stallybrass, born Jacqueline Anne Stallybrass on 4 December 1938 in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, was an English actress. She trained at the Royal Academy of Music, winning the Drama Gold Medal, after a period in repertory theatre with the Arthur Brough Players in Folkestone, and later in Nottingham and Sheffield.
Her best-known TV roles include Jane Seymour in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) and Anne Onedin in The Onedin Line (1971–72). In the 1990s, she played Aunt Eileen Reynolds in Heartbeat and she narrated five episodes of Jackanory in 1973. Other notable work includes Doreen Haskins in The Sweeney, Anna Strauss in The Strauss Family (1972), Susan Henchard in The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978), and Muriel Thomas in The Old Devils (1992). She portrayed Queen Elizabeth II in the TV miniseries Diana: Her True Story (1993). She received two BAFTA nominations for Best Actress, for Anne Onedin and Anna Strauss.
Stallybrass married twice. She first wed Roger Rowland in 1963; they later separated. Her second husband was Peter Gilmore; they married in 1987 and remained together until his death in 2013. She lived in Barnes, London, and owned Onedin House in Dartmouth, a filming location for The Onedin Line. She did not have children but had three godchildren and kept in touch with many of her television colleagues. Anne Stallybrass died on 3 July 2021 at the age of 82.
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