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Dateline: 11th March, 2005
Sheila Gish (1942 - 2005) Actress Sheila Gish has died of cancer at the age of 62. In 2003 she suffered a facial cancerous tumour and lost her right eye in the operation to remove it, but continued to work using an eyepatch. Although she played numerous film roles, including (most popularly) the Highlander series, together with A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972) and Quartet (1981), she worked mainly in theatre, winning an Olivier Award for per performance as Joanne in Sondheim's Company at the Donmar. After leaving RADA, she began her career in rep, playing ingenue roles at Pitlochry and first appeared in the West End in 1964 when she played Bella in Robert and Elizabeth at the Lyric. Indeed, she was mainly restricted to light comedy roles until the eighties, when she was given the chance to show her real talent in the title role of Racine's Berenice at the Lyric, Hammersmith (1982). This was followed in 1983 by a performance as Blanche du Bois in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire at Greenwich, transferring to the Mermaid. She was to return to Williams - to great acclaim - in 1997, when she played Mrs Venables in Suddenly Last Summer at the Comedy Theatre opposite Rachel Weisz. She returned to Racine again in 2002, playing Phaedra at the Riverside Studios and her last performance, complete with eyepatch, was as Arkadina in The Seagull at Chichester in 2003. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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