Stephanie Beacham (born 28 February 1947) is an English television, radio, film and theatre actress. After first appearing on British television during the late 1960s, she began appearing in films in 1970, most prominently in 1971's The Nightcomers opposite Marlon Brando. She became well-known on British television in the BBC series Tenko (1981–82) and the ITV series Connie (1985), before going on to play Sable Colby in the U.S. television series The Colbys (1985–87) and in the final season of Dynasty (1988–89). In the 2000's she has had high profile roles in Bad Girls (2003-06) as Phyllida Oswyn and as Martha Fraser in Coronation Street (2009).
People's Choice Award for Favorite Actress in a New TV Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Movies
The Nightcomers, Dracula A.D. 1972, Inseminoid, And Now the Screaming Starts!, Super Bitch, Love and Other Disasters, House of Mortal Sin, Troop Beverly Hills, Schizo, Relative Values, Tam-Lin, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The Witches Hammer, A Change of Place, Wedding Bell Blues, Unconditional L...
TV Shows
Tenko, Connie, The Colbys, Dynasty, Sister Kate, Cluedo, seaQuest DSV, Bad Girls, Trollied, Boomers, No Bananas, Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
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Trademark
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Deep sultry British accent.
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Natural auburn hair
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...I had a play I wanted to do and I had Horror Planet (1981) - but I also had two babies upstairs who were my responsibility and I had £2,000-worth of bills sitting in front of me and so that was the decision made.
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[on the effects of ageing] I would like to pull the whole of my face up with an elastic band.
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My first contract. My first audition. My first job. It all came at the same time. And that's the way I do a lot of things. Very naively, innocently. I'm like Mr. Magoo.
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She of "The Vortex," in the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson/Josephine Hart and Stagescreen productions at the (University of California) James A. Doolittle Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1991 Drama-Logue Award for Performance.
(May 7, 2009) Her boyfriend, a doctor, alerted her that she had a skin cancer problem on her nose and the lesion was surgically removed.
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Following a miscarriage that occurred as the result of an accident while in rehearsals for "Hamlet" on stage, daughter Phoebe McEnery was born December 22, 1974, and second daughter, Chloe, was born on February 7, 1977.
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Parents are Alec and Joan Beacham; has two sisters, Di-Di and Jenny Beacham, and one brother, Richard Beacham.
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Her brother, Richard Beacham, is eight years older than her. He lived in Malaysia and had an economic adviser for underdeveloped countries.
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Her mother developed chicken pox while pregnant with Stephanie. It is believed that this was the root of her partial deafness. She is associated with the Tinnitus Society of Great Britain.
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Trained in mime in Paris with Etienne Decroux before studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where she performed in such productions as "The Merchant of Venice" (as Portia) and "Twelfth Night" (as Maria).
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Studied ballet from the age of four.
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Spokesperson for the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, and serves on the Board of Directors for Free Arts for Abused Children.
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In 1972, she posed for Playboy magazine, and later said that her only regret was the wig she wore. However, when the pictures were republished in the mid 1980s when Beacham was starring on The Colbys (1985), she lost a $1 million contract with a cosmetics company.
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