Heather Sears
| Heather Sears | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 September 1935 Kensington, London, England, UK |
| Died | 3 January 1994 (aged 58) Hinchley Wood, Surrey, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1955-1989 |
Heather Christine Sears: (28 September 1935 – 3 January 1994), was a British stage and screen actress.
Although not from an acting family (her father was a distinguished London doctor), she was already performing in plays at the age of 5 and even writing them at the age of 8. Sears had a long association with France and French culture which began in her childhood when she spent summers in Brittany with pen friend Michelle. This is when she learnt to speak fluent French. After leaving school she spent time in Paris doing voice overs and dubbing work and enjoying the company of the Paris "in crowd" of artists and writers such as Pablo Picasso, Albert Camus and Arthur Koestler.
When she was sixteen she followed her elder sister Ann Sears (1933–1992) to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. During her last year she signed a 7-year contract with Romulus Films which allowed her an annual six months to do stage and television work if she wished. This was made possible through the good offices of the film director Jack Clayton, her friend and mentor.
After graduating from drama school, she was active from 1955 onwards in the Windsor repertory theatre. A year later she made her film début with a minor role in Michael Truman's Touch and Go (1955) and followed this up with a part in Maurice Elvey's film version of comedy Dry Rot (1956) as the naive Susan
Before she turned 22, Sears had made her début on the London stage, replacing Mary Ure in the part of Alison in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, playing alongside Richard Bates and Richard Pasco. Shortly afterwards she played Claire Bloom's role in the television production of Ring Round the Moon. Although her greatest contribution was in the area of repertory theatre (her preferred medium), her most enduring legacy is inevitably in films, mostly in the late fifties and early sixties, but also in her television work.
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