Sheila Redgate

Sheila was inspired by her great aunt, Movie Star Louise Latimer, at the age of five. Louise would dress Shelia up in mink stoles, and false eyelashes, and give her lines to recite at family holiday parties. Sheila was also inspired to be an actress by her aunt Virginia McGuire who studied at Carnegie Tech and Yale Drama School. Virginia won a contest put on by Photoplay magazine in which judges that included Bette Davis, William Holden, and Joseph Mankiewicz chose her out of 50,000 girls. Sheila was born and raised in Connecticut. She started acting classes at Fairfield University with Doug Taylor. After doing many Connecticut regional theatrical productions, Sheila went to NYC and studied in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts summer program and took other classes in between. Shelia decided to move to Hollywood California, where she got an agent and enrolled at the Stella Adler Conservatory for three years. One of Sheila's stage performances received the following review in