Sheila Hancock

Dame Sheila Cameron Hancock (born 22 February 1933) is an English actress, singer, and author. She has performed on stage in both plays and musicals in London theatres, and is also known for her roles in films and on television.

Hancock’s 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, Hancock’s 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). She was twice nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, for The Russian Bride (2001) and Bedtime (2002).

Early life and education

Sheila Cameron Hancock<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was born on 22 February 1933 in Blackgang on the Isle of Wight, the daughter of Enrico Cameron Hancock and Ivy Louise (née Woodward).<ref>Film reference Hancock Biography, Filmreference.com. Retrieved 9 March 2010.</ref> Her sister Billie was seven years older.Template:Sfn After Enrico and Ivy left the hospitality industry in 1938, the Hancocks moved to a semi-detached house in Latham Road, Bexleyheath, which Hancock considered dull compared to "the rough and tumble" of King's Cross. She later recalled that there was a sense that "we had definitely gone up in the world... became lower-middle-class".Template:Sfn

Hancock was educated at St Etheldreda's Convent at Ely Place, Holborn, then at Upton Road Junior School and Upland Junior School.Template:Sfn After wartime evacuation to Wallingford, Oxfordshire (at that time in Berkshire), and to Crewkerne, Somerset, Hancock attended Dartford County Grammar School.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Hancock furthered her acting education at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), graduating in 1952 with an Acting (RADA Diploma).<ref name="rada">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Theatre

Hancock worked in repertory during the 1950s and made her West End debut in 1958, replacing Joan Sims in the play Breath of Spring. She then appeared in Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop production of Make Me An Offer in 1959, and her other early West End appearances included Peter Cook's revue One Over the Eight with Kenneth Williams in 1961, and starring in Rattle of a Simple Man in 1962. She recalled that in One over the Eight she had been egged on by Irving Davies's exhortation as dance captain, "Eyes, teeth, and tits, darlings – and sparkle, sparkle, sparkle!"<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In 1965, Hancock made her Broadway debut in Entertaining Mr Sloane. In 1978, she played Miss Hannigan in the original London cast of the musical Annie at the Victoria Palace Theatre and two years later, she played Mrs Lovett in the original London production of the musical Sweeney Todd at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; her portrayal was described as having "caught the love-story element perfectly."<ref>Milnes, Rodney. "Opera in Britain – Sweeney Todd, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, December 15", Opera, March 2004, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 349–352.</ref>

Hancock has appeared in The Winter's Tale, Titus Andronicus and A Delicate Balance for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). At the National Theatre she has appeared in Neil Bartlett's In Extremis/ De Profundis,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Cherry Orchard and The Duchess of Malfi. She was also the first woman director of the RSC touring company, directing A Midsummer Night's Dream and was the first woman to direct in the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre with The Critic. She was also associate artistic director of the Cambridge Theatre Company.<ref>"CTC job as Sheila Hancock turns to directing", The Stage, 4 December 1980, p. 1.</ref>

Hancock took the role of Rose in the West Yorkshire Playhouse's 1993 production of Gypsy; a reviewer commented that she "certainly had the measure of Rose... 'Everything's coming up roses' brought the first hint of true pathos into the show", while in the final scene "her wild fluctuations between self-belief and self-doubt ended in tear-jerking self-awareness".<ref>Dreyer, Martin. Gypsy – West Yorkshire Playhouse Company, Leeds, 20 December. Opera, February 1994, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 244-245.</ref>

In 2006, Hancock played the role of Fräulein Schneider in the West End revival of the musical Cabaret at the Lyric Theatre. She won the Laurence Olivier Award, and the Clarence Derwent Award, for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical. In 2009, she spent over a year playing Mother Superior in Sister Act the Musical at the London Palladium for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

In 2013, Hancock starred alongside Lee Evans<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Keeley Hawes in the comedy Barking in Essex at Wyndham's Theatre.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2016, Hancock starred with Jenna Russell in the UK premiere of the musical Grey Gardens at Southwark Playhouse.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In 2018, she played Maude in Harold and Maude at the Charing Cross Theatre, London.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2019, Hancock starred in the musical This Is My Family at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Television

Hancock's first big television role was as Carole Taylor in the BBC sitcom The Rag Trade in the early 1960s. She also played the lead roles in the sitcoms The Bed-Sit Girl, Mr Digby Darling and Now Take My Wife. Her other television credits include Doctor Who (playing a parody of Margaret Thatcher in The Happiness Patrol),<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Kavanagh QC (opposite her husband, John Thaw), Gone to the Dogs, Brighton Belles, EastEnders, The Russian Bride, Bedtime, Fortysomething, Feather Boy, Bleak House, New Tricks, Hustle and The Catherine Tate Show. In 2008, she played the part of a terminally ill patient who travelled to Switzerland for an assisted suicide in one of The Last Word monologues for the BBC, in a role that was written especially for her by Hugo Blick. In 2009, she played Liz in The Rain Has Stopped, the first episode of the BBC anthology series Moving On.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Hancock has also presented several documentaries. In 2010, she presented Suffragette City (part of A History of the World series), telling the story of the suffragette movement through objects from the Museum of London's collection.<ref name="suffragette.city">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2011, she presented Sheila Hancock Brushes Up: The Art of Watercolours, exploring the history of watercolour via beautiful yet little-known works of professional and amateur artists.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2013 she presented, as part of the ITV Perspectives documentary series, Perspectives: Sheila Hancock – The Brilliant Brontë Sisters, examining the writers' upbringing and the sources of their inspiration.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In December 2012, Hancock took part in a Christmas special edition of the BBC programme Strictly Come Dancing.<ref>Template:Cite episode</ref>

In January 2016, Hancock made a guest appearance in an episode of the BBC medical drama Casualty for its 30th anniversary. From December 2016 until its conclusion in January 2019, she starred alongside Dawn French, Emilia Fox and Iain Glen in all three seasons of the Sky One comedy drama series Delicious.Template:Fact

In January 2017, Hancock made a guest appearance in an episode of the Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour alongside her stepdaughter Abigail Thaw.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

In 2020, Hancock co-presented Great Canal Journeys for Channel 4 with Gyles Brandreth, with whom she had previously appeared on Celebrity Gogglebox.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2021, she appeared in more Great Canal Journeys as well as the Sky One fantasy drama A Discovery of Witches as Goody Alsop, and as Eileen in ITV's Unforgotten.

In 2023, Hancock played Liz Zettl in the BBC true-life crime drama miniseries The Sixth Commandment.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Other work

In March 1963, Hancock made a comedy single record, "My Last Cigarette".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The song is about someone trying to give up smoking; however, every good intention is dependent on her having "just one more cigarette".

In 1980, she appeared in the movie The Wildcats of St Trinian's which she called "one of the worst films ever made".<ref name=Cooke>Template:Cite news</ref>

Hancock regularly works in radio. She has been a semi-regular contestant on the BBC Radio 4 panel game Just a Minute since 1967. She starred as Alice Foster in the BBC Radio 2 comedy series Thank You, Mrs Fothergill, in 1978–79, alongside Pat Coombs. In 1995, Hancock provided the voice of Granny Weatherwax in BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Wyrd Sisters. In 2011, Hancock appeared in the BBC Radio 4 series North by Northamptonshire, alongside Geoffrey Palmer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She has made guest appearances on television shows such as Grumpy Old Women, Room 101, Have I Got News for You and Would I Lie To You?. From March to May 2010, she appeared as a judge on the BBC show Over the Rainbow, along with Charlotte Church, Andrew Lloyd Webber and John Partridge.

From 2007 to 2012, Hancock was chancellor of the University of Portsmouth.<ref>University of Portsmouth News Template:Webarchive. Retrieved 19 March 2010.</ref>

Hancock was the subject of the biographical television series This Is Your Life in 1977, when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the curtain call of the play The Bed Before Yesterday at the Lyric Theatre, London.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/{{#if: tt0721960

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Honours and awards

Template:BLP sources section Hancock was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1974 Birthday Honours, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to drama and charity.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

In 2007, Hancock was appointed as the Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth.<ref name="Guard">Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2010, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Women in Film and Television Awards.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

She was twice nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, for The Russian Bride (2001) and Bedtime (2002).<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Year	Work	Awards	Category	Result	Ref.
1966	Entertaining Mr Sloane	Tony Awards	Best Actress in a Play	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1978	Annie	Laurence Olivier Awards	Best Comedy Performance	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1980	Sweeney Todd		Best Actress in a Musical	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1982	The Winter's Tale		Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1990	Prin		Actress of the Year	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2002	The Russian Bride	British Academy Television Awards	Best Actress	Template:Nom	<ref name=":0" />
2003	Bedtime			Template:Nom	<ref name=":0" />
2007	Cabaret	Laurence Olivier Awards	Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2010	Sister Act			Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

Hancock was married to actor Alec Ross from 1955 until his death from oesophageal cancer in 1971. They had one daughter, Melanie, born in 1964. In 1973, Hancock married actor John Thaw. He adopted Melanie and they had another daughter, Joanna Thaw. Thaw's daughter Abigail, from his first marriage, also joined their family. All three of their daughters have become actresses.<ref name=Cooke /><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Hancock was married to Thaw until his death (also from oesophageal cancer) on 21 February 2002. Hancock herself was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988, but made a full recovery. Her 2004 book, The Two of Us, is a dual biography, which gives accounts of both their lives, as well as focusing on their 28-year marriage.Template:Sfn This was followed by the 2008 book Just Me, an autobiographical account of coming to terms with widowhood,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and Old Rage in 2022.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 2014, she published her debut novel, Miss Carter's War.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Hancock had published the memoir Ramblings of an Actress in 1987.Template:Sfn

Hancock is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She is a patron of educational charity Digismart as well as a trustee of the John Thaw Foundation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Hancock is a friend of Sandi Toksvig and read Maya Angelou's poem "Touched by an Angel" at the "I Do To Equal Marriage" event that celebrated the introduction of same-sex marriage in England and Wales.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1960	Light Up the Sky!	Theatre Act
	The Bulldog Breed	Doris	Uncredited
	Doctor in Love	Librarian	Uncredited
1961	The Girl on the Boat	Jane Hubbard
1962	Twice Round the Daffodils	Dora
1964	Night Must Fall	Dora Parkoe
	The Moon-Spinners	Cynthia Gamble
	Carry On Cleo	Senna Pod
1967	How I Won the War	Mrs Clapper's Friend
1968	The Anniversary	Karen Taggart
1970	Take a Girl Like You	Martha Thompson
1980	The Wildcats of St Trinian's	Olga Vandemeer
1987	Maiking Waves	Doris	Short film
1988	Hawks	Regina
	Buster	Mrs Rothery
	The Universe of Dermot Finn	Mother of Pearl	Short film
1990	Three Men and a Little Lady	Vera
1994	A Business Affair	Judith
1997	Love and Death on Long Island	Mrs. Barker
1999	Hold Back the Night	Vera
2004	Yes	Aunt
2008	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	Grandma
2013	Delicious	Patti
2017	Edie	Edie
	The Dark Mile	Mary
2018	The More You Ignore Me<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/{{#if: tt2838568	match|1=tt2838568|2=^tt}}	Template:Trim/	tttt2838568/ }}	from=}}	title/Template:First word/	find?q=%5B%5B%3ATemplate%3APAGENAMEBASE%5D%5D&s=tt }} }}{{#ifeq: {{#invoke:If any equal|main|Q618779|Q67325957|Q33999|value=Template:Wikidata}} | yes	{{#switch: Template:Wikidata	Q618779	Q67325957 = awards Awards for	Q33999 = fullcredits Full cast and crew of }}	{{#if: Template:Wikidata	{{#switch: Template:Wikidata	Q63032896	Q66763446 = fullcredits Full cast and crew of	Q107974527	Q482994 = soundtrack Soundtrack of }} }} }} Template:Trim] at {{#if: | IMDb | IMDb }}Template:EditAtWikidata{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:IMDb title with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|showblankpositional=1| 1 | 2 | 3 | description | id | link_hide | qid | quotes | title }}{{#switch: {{#invoke:String2|matchAny|^tt.........|^tt.......|tt|.........|source=tt2838568|plain=false}}| 1 | 3 = Template:Main otherTemplate:Preview warning| 4 = Template:Main otherTemplate:Preview warning}}{{#if: tt2838568 {{#property:P345}} || Template:Preview warningTemplate:Main other }}{{#switch: Template:Wikidata	Q21191270	Q21664088	Q50062923	Q50914552	Q99079902	Q123186929	Q55422400	Q61220733 = Template:Preview warning	Q3464665 = Template:Preview warning }}{{#ifeq: Template:Wikidata | Q21191270 | Template:Preview warning }}{{#if: tt2838568 | Template:WikidataCheck }}</ref> ||Nan Wildgoose ||
2019	From This Day Forward	Her	Short film

Television (partial)

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1960	Bootsie and Snudge	Greta	Episode: "Bootsie's Punctured Romance"
	BBC Sunday-Night Play	Janet	Episode: " Doctor in the House"
1961–1962	Template:Sortname	Carole Taylor	12 episodes
1963	BBC Sunday-Night Play	Jackie Lambert	Episode: "June Fall"
1964	Festival	Winifred	Episode: "Say Nothing"
	Thursday Theatre	Olive Leech	Episode: "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll"
1965	ITV Play of the Week	Hety	Episode: "A Fearful Thing"
	Template:Sortname	Joyce Lambert	Episode: "The Regulator"
1966	Template:Sortname	Sheila Ross	12 episodes
	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Cynthia / Vi	2 episodes
1966–1981	Jackanory	Storyteller	15 episodes
1967	Armchair Theatre	Alice	Episode: "Compensation Alice"
	Life with Cooper	Lady Stuck in Railings	1 episode
1968	ITV Playhouse	Naomi Woodley	Episode: "Horizontal Hold"
		Kaff	Episode: "Entertaining Mr Sloane"
	Release	Mrs Caudle	Episode: "Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures "
	Detective	Mrs Markle	Episode: "Born Victim"
1969	All Star Comedy Carnival	Thelma Teesdale
1969–1971	Mr Digby Darling	Thelma Teesdale	19 episodes
1970	Template:Sortname	Freda	Episode: "Sealed with a Loving Kiss"
	Comedy Playhouse	Wendy Hillbright	Episode: "Better Than a Man"
1971		Claire Love	Episode: "Just Harry and Me"
	Shadows of Fear	Anne Brand	Episode: "Sugar and Spice"
	Now Take My Wife	Claire Love	14 episodes
1972	Scoop	Mrs Stitch	3 episodes
1982	Play for Today	Ellen	Episode: "The Remainder Man"
1985	Dramarama	Rita Chartell	Episode: "The Audition"
	Template:Sortname	Mrs Gascoigne	<ref>The Daughter-in-Law – BBC – Radio Times</ref>
	Home to Roost	Sue Willows	Episode: "The Way We Were"
1988	Doctor Who	Helen A.	Episode: "The Happiness Patrol"
1989	Theatre Night	Mrs Malaprop	Episode: "The Rivals"
1991	Gone to the Dogs	Jean	4 episodes
1992	Gone to Seed	Mag Plant
1993–1994	The Brighton Belles	Frances	All 11 episodes
1993	The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends	Anna Maria	Episode: "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding"
1995	The Buccaneers	Duchess of Trevenick	5 episodes
	Dangerous Lady	Sarah Ryan	All 4 episodes
1997	Kavanagh QC	Sarah Meadows	Episode: "Blood Money"
1998	Close Relations	Dorothy	All 5 episodes
1999	Alice in Wonderland	Cook	TV film
2000–2001	EastEnders	Barbara	3 episodes
2000	The Thing About Vince...	Pat	All 3 episodes
2001–2003	Bedtime	Alice Oldfield	All 15 episodes
2001	The Russian Bride	Dora Blossom	TV film
	The Practicality of Magnolia	Isobel	TV film
2002	Bait	Pam Raeburn	TV film
2003	Fortysomething	Gwendolen Hartley	All 6 episodes
2004	Feather Boy	Edith Sorrel	All 6 episodes
2005	Bleak House	Mrs. Guppy	2 episodes
2006	The Catherine Tate Show	June	Episode: "Lauren Gets Hitched"
	After Thomas	Granny Pat	TV film
2007	Fallen Angel	Lady Youlgreave	2 episodes
2007–2011	New Tricks	Grace Pullman	4 episodes
2009	Moving On	Liz	Episode: "he Rain Has Stopped"
2011	Just Henry	Gran	TV film
2012	Hustle	Dolly Hammond	Episode: "Picasso Finger Painting"
2012	Playhouse Presents	Melba	Episode: "Nellie and Melba"
2014	Remember Me	Loveday Hutton	Episode: #1.3
2015	Toast of London	Sheila Hancock	Episode: "Global Warming"
2016	Casualty	Hester Price	Episode: "A Life Less Ordinary"
	The Dumping Ground	Doris	Episode: "Doris"
2016–2019	Delicious	Mimi Vincent	12 episodes
2017	Endeavour	Dowsable Chattox	Episode: "Harvest"
2018	Urban Myths	Gala Dalí	Episode: "The Dalí and the Cooper"
2020	Housebound	Audrey	3 episodes
2021	Template:Sortname	Goody Alsop	5 episodes
	Unforgotten	Eileen Baildon	5 episodes
2023	The Sixth Commandment	Liz Zettl	4 episodes
2025	Have I Got News For You	Panelist on Ian's team	1 episode; series 70; oldest panelist ever

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• Sheila Hancock on Who Do You Think You Are?
• sheilahancock.net (website registered in Hungary)