Sheila Sim
| Sheila Sim | |
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Lady Attenborough at Canterbury, October 2004
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| Born |
Sheila Beryl Grant Sim 5 June 1922 Liverpool, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 19 January 2016 (aged 93) London, England |
| Cause of death | Dementia |
| Other names | Sheila Beryl Grant Attenborough Sheila Attenborough |
| Years active | 1944–1959 |
| Title | The Rt Hon The Baroness Attenborough |
| Spouse(s) |
Richard Attenborough (1945–2014; his death) |
| Children |
Michael Attenborough (13 Feb 1950–) Jane Holland (30 Sep 1955 – 26 Dec 2004) Charlotte Attenborough (29 June 1959–) |
| Relatives |
David Attenborough (brother-in-law) John Attenborough (brother-in-law, deceased) Gerald Sim (brother, deceased) Jane Seymour (former daughter-in-law) |
Sheila Beryl Grant Attenborough, The Lady Attenborough (née Sim; 5 June 1922 – 19 January 2016), known professionally by her maiden name Sheila Sim, was an English film and theatre actress. She was the wife of the actor and director Richard Attenborough.
Sheila Beryl Grant Sim was born in Liverpool, Lancashire. Sim was mainly active as an actress in the 1940s and 1950s. She appeared in the Powell and Pressburger film, A Canterbury Tale (1944); she acted alongside her husband in the Boulting brothers' The Guinea Pig (1948); and starred opposite Anthony Steel in West of Zanzibar (1954).
In theatre, she co-starred with her husband, Richard Attenborough, in the first cast of The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie, from its London premiere in 1952. Sim played the role of Mollie Ralston.
After recruitment by Noël Coward, Sim actively served the Actors' Charitable Trust for more than 60 years. She was instrumental in the success of two redevelopments of the actors' care home, Denville Hall, in the 1960s and 2000s, and was a Trustee and Vice-President of the charities.
Sim was a significant benefactor to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where she originally trained; her husband was RADA's president from 2003 until he died in 2014.
Sim married Richard Attenborough on 22 January 1945 and they had lived in a house on Richmond Green in London from 1956 until 2012, when her husband placed it for sale at £11.5 million.
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