Stephanie Beacham Wiki Biography
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).
Full Name | Stephanie Beacham |
Net Worth | $20 Million |
Date Of Birth | February 28, 1947 |
Place Of Birth | Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK |
Height | 5′ 7″ (1.7 m) |
Profession | Actress, Soundtrack |
Education | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
Nationality | British |
Spouse | John McEnery |
Children | Phoebe McEnery, Chloe McEnery |
Parents | Alec Beacham, Joan Beacham |
Siblings | Richard Beacham, Di-Di Beacham, Jenny Beacham |
Facebook | http://www.facebook.com/OfficialStephanieBeacham |
IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000883 |
Nominations | 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 |
Trademark |
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1 | Deep sultry British accent. |
2 | Natural auburn hair |
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1 | …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. |
2 | [on the effects of ageing] I would like to pull the whole of my face up with an elastic band. |
3 | 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. |
Fact |
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1 | 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. |
2 | She was to have reprised her role as Jessica Van Helsing from Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) in its sequel The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) but she was unavailable. |
3 | (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. |
4 | 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. |
5 | Parents are Alec and Joan Beacham; has two sisters, Di-Di and Jenny Beacham, and one brother, Richard Beacham. |
6 | Her brother, Richard Beacham, is eight years older than her. He lived in Malaysia and had an economic adviser for underdeveloped countries. |
7 | 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. |
8 | 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). |
9 | Studied ballet from the age of four. |
10 | Spokesperson for the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, and serves on the Board of Directors for Free Arts for Abused Children. |
11 | 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. |
12 | Ex-sister-in-law of Peter McEnery, Julie Peasgood and photographer David McEnery. |
13 | Has two daughters with John McEnery: Chloe McEnery and Phoebe McEnery. |
14 | She was one of the judges on the final of the Miss Universe 1993 Pageant held in Mexico City, Mexico. |
15 | Completely deaf in one ear, partially in her other. |
Actress
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Sister Kate | 1989-1990 | TV Series | Sister Katherine ‘Kate’ Lambert |
Cluedo | 1990 | TV Series | Mrs. Elizabeth Peacock |
Harry and Harriet | 1990 | Christine Petersen |
Lucky Chances | 1990 | TV Mini-Series | Susan Martino Santangelo |
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | 1989 | Letitia Slighcarp |
Dynasty | 1985-1989 | TV Series | Sable Colby |
Troop Beverly Hills | 1989 | Vicki Sprantz |
French and Saunders | 1988 | TV Series | Doreena Petherbridge |
Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story | 1987 | TV Mini-Series | Therese Tallien |
The Colbys | 1985-1987 | TV Series | Sable Colby |
The Love Boat | 1986 | TV Series | Elaine Riskin |
Connie | 1985 | TV Series | Connie |
Fox Mystery Theater | 1984 | TV Series | Rosemary Richardson |
Sorrell and Son | 1984 | TV Mini-Series | Florence Palfrey |
Tenko | 1981-1982 | TV Series | Rose Millar |
Horror Planet | 1981 | Kate |
I vecchi e i giovani | 1979 | TV Mini-Series | Nicoletta |
Rainbow | 1978 | TV Series | Special Guest Narrator |
Schizo | 1976 | Beth |
Forget Me Not | 1976 | TV Series | Jeanne Teliot |
Hadleigh | 1976 | TV Series | Susan Debray |
The Confessional | 1976 | Vanessa Welch |
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac | 1975 | TV Mini-Series | Fanny Lovell |
Whodunnit? | 1975 | TV Series | Helen Brent |
Marked Personal | 1973-1974 | TV Series | Georgina Layton |
Napoleon and Love | 1974 | TV Mini-Series | Madame Duchatel |
Ego Hugo | 1973 | TV Movie | Adèle Hugo |
Jane Eyre | 1973 | TV Mini-Series | Blanche Ingram |
Special Branch | 1973 | TV Series | Sue Arden |
And Now the Screaming Starts! | 1973 | Catherine Fengriffen |
The Protectors | 1973 | TV Series | Chrissie |
Mafia Junction | 1973 | Joanne |
The Adventurer | 1973 | TV Series | Contessa Maria |
The Aries Computer | 1972 |
Man at the Top | 1972 | TV Series | Paula Fraser |
ITV Saturday Night Theatre | 1971-1972 | TV Series | Jenny Draper / Anna Trenton |
Dracula A.D. 1972 | 1972 | Jessica Van Helsing |
Jason King | 1972 | TV Series | Cora Simpson |
The Nightcomers | 1971 | Miss Jessel |
UFO | 1970 | TV Series | Sarah Bosanquet |
The Devil’s Widow | 1970 | Janet Ainsley |
Sentimental Education | 1970 | TV Mini-Series | Rosanette |
The Games | 1970 | Angela Simmonds |
Callan | 1970 | TV Series | Beth Lampton |
The Distracted Preacher | 1969 | TV Movie | Lizzy Newberry |
Public Eye | 1969 | TV Series | Shirley Marlowe |
Armchair Theatre | 1969 | TV Series | Linda |
The Jazz Age | 1968 | TV Series | Charlotte Tonn |
The Saint | 1968 | TV Series | Penny |
ITV Playhouse | 1968 | TV Series | Lisa Wendle |
The Queen’s Traitor | 1967 | TV Series | Mary Queen of Scots |
Out of Town Theatre | 1967 | TV Mini-Series | The Girl |
Bucket | 2017 | TV Series | Pat |
Wild Oats | 2016 | Tammy |
Boomers | 2014-2016 | TV Series | Maureen |
Death in Paradise | 2013 | TV Series | Nicole Seymour |
Trollied | 2012 | TV Series | Lorraine |
Mount Pleasant | 2012 | TV Series | Aunty Pam |
Casualty | 2010 | TV Series | Monica Shapiro |
Material Girl | 2010 | TV Series | Sylvie Montrose |
Coronation Street | 2009 | TV Series | Martha Fraser |
Free Agents | 2009 | TV Series | Wendy |
Plot 7 | 2007 | Emma Osterman |
The Witches Hammer | 2006 | Madeline |
Bad Girls | 2003-2006 | TV Series | Phyllida Oswyn |
Love and Other Disasters | 2006 | Felicity Riggs-Wentworth |
New Tricks | 2006 | TV Series | Rhoda Wishaw |
Seven Days of Grace | 2006 | Dana |
Would I Lie to You? | 2002 | Video | Amaelia |
Unconditional Love | 2002 | Harriet Fox-Smith |
Having It Off | 2002 | TV Series | Vernice Green |
Relative Values | 2000 | Elizabeth |
Charmed | 2000 | TV Series | Martha van Lewen |
The Lily Savage Show | 1997 | TV Series |
Wedding Bell Blues | 1996 | Tanya’s Mother |
No Bananas | 1996 | TV Mini-Series | Dorothea Grant |
High Society | 1995 | TV Series | Stella, the acting coach |
Legend | 1995 | TV Series | Vera Slaughter |
Beverly Hills, 90210 | 1991-1994 | TV Series | Iris McKay |
A Change of Place | 1994 | TV Movie | Marie |
SeaQuest 2032 | 1993-1994 | TV Series | Dr. Kristin Westphalen |
Burke’s Law | 1994 | TV Series | Victoria Lancer |
Blossom | 1993 | TV Series | Mrs. Robinson |
Riders | 1993 | TV Movie | Molly Carter |
Foreign Affairs | 1993 | TV Movie | Rosemary Radley |
Star Trek: The Next Generation | 1993 | TV Series | Countess Barthalomew |
To Be the Best | 1992 | TV Movie | Arabella |
Secrets | 1992 | TV Movie | Sabina Quarles |
The Lilac Bus | 1990 | TV Movie | Judy |
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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New Tricks | 2006 | TV Series 1 episode |
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Frankenpimp’s Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre | special thanks filming |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Pointless Celebrities | 2013 | TV Series | Herself |
Hollywood Me! | 2013 | TV Series | Herself |
Loose Women | 1999-2013 | TV Series | Herself |
Actors Entertainment | 2011 | TV Series | Herself |
Daybreak | 2011 | TV Series | Herself |
Big Brother’s Little Brother | 2010 | TV Series | Herself |
Celebrity Big Brother | 2010 | TV Series | Herself |
Celebrity Big Brother’s Big Mouth | 2010 | TV Series | Herself |
The One Show | 2009 | TV Series | Herself |
The Alan Titchmarsh Show | 2008-2009 | TV Series | Herself |
The Story of the Costume Drama | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Strictly Come Dancing | 2007-2008 | TV Series | Herself – Contestant / Herself – Audience Member |
The Paul O’Grady Show | 2005-2007 | TV Series | Herself |
Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
British Film Forever | 2007 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself |
Breakfast | 2002-2007 | TV Series | Herself |
Grumpy Old Women | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Prince’s Trust 30th Birthday: Live | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Drama Connections | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Wright Stuff | 2005 | TV Series | Herself – Guest Panelist |
The British Soap Awards 2005 | 2005 | TV Special | Herself – Presenter |
Subterranean Universe: Making ‘Inseminoid’ | 2005 | Video documentary | Herself |
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
The Bold and the Beautiful | 2004 | TV Series | Herself |
The Best of ‘So Graham Norton’ | 2004 | Video | Herself |
This Morning | 2004 | TV Series | Herself |
2003 TV Moments | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Herself – Presenter |
That Was the Week We Watched | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
When Shoulderpads Ruled the World | 2002 | TV Special | Herself |
L.A. Pool Party | 2001 | TV Series | Herself |
Top Ten | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
So Graham Norton | 1999 | TV Series | Herself |
Afternoon Live | 1997 | TV Series | Herself – Guest |
Light Lunch | 1997 | TV Series | Herself |
Noel’s House Party | 1997 | TV Series | Herself |
In Search of Dracula with Jonathan Ross | 1996 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Miss Universe Pageant | 1994 | TV Special documentary | Herself – Judge |
Russell Grant’s All-Star Show | 1994 | TV Series | Herself – Guest |
Vicki! | 1993 | TV Series | Herself |
Des O’Connor Tonight | 1991 | TV Series | Herself |
This Is Your Life | 1990 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The 47th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1990 | TV Special | Herself – Nominee: Best Actress in a TV-Series – Comedy / Musical |
6th Annual Soap Opera Awards | 1990 | TV Special | Herself |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1989 | TV Series | Herself – Guest / Herself |
The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross | 1987 | TV Series | Herself |
The 44th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1987 | TV Special | Herself – Presenter: Best Actress / Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV |
The 12th Annual People’s Choice Awards | 1986 | TV Special | Herself – Accepting Award for Favourite New Dramatic Program |
Hour Magazine | 1986 | TV Series | Herself |
Call My Bluff | 1967-1970 | TV Series | Herself |
Archive Footage
Nominated Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1990 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical | Sister Kate (1989) |
1990 | Soap Opera Digest Award | Soap Opera Digest Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress: Prime Time | Dynasty (1981) |
1988 | Soap Opera Digest Award | Soap Opera Digest Awards | Outstanding Villainess: Prime Time | The Colbys (1985) |
1986 | Soap Opera Digest Award | Soap Opera Digest Awards | Outstanding Villainess on a Prime Time Serial | The Colbys (1985) |
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