Anne Stallybrass

Anne Stallybrass was born and raised in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. She wanted to be an actress from a very young age and was encouraged in her ambition at the convent school she attended. After three years training at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the Drama Gold Medal, Anne began her professional acting career by spending several years in repertory, gaining experience in Folkstone, Kent, before moving to Nottingham and then Sheffield. Her first appearance on television was in Emergency-Ward 10 (1957) in September 1964, which was followed in 1965 by two productions for the BBC's Theatre 625 (1964), The World of George Orwell: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1965) and Portraits from the North: Bruno (1965); and "Love on the Dole for Granada" in January 1967. However, it was her role as "Jane Seymour" in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) in January 1970 that really brought Anne to prominence, followed eighteen months later by The Onedin Line (1971) which made household names of bot