Stephanie Beacham

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Stephanie Beacham (born 28 February 1947) is an English television, radio, film, and theatre actress.

She is best known for her appearances in BBC drama Tenko (1981–82), the ITV drama Connie (1985), and her appearance in the ABC soap operas Dynamy (1985–89).

Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), Schizo (1976), and Troop Beverly Hills (1989). Beacham made her first appearance in the 1970 film The Games on British television in 1967 before starring Marlon Brando in the 1971 film The Nightcomers.

For her role in the NBC sitcom Sister Kate (1989–90), she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

Phyl Oswyn of the ITV drama series Bad Girls (2003–06), Martha Fraser in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2009), and Lorraine in the Sky One sitcom Trollied (2012).

Maria Callas appeared onstage in a 2010 UK tour performance of the play Master Class.

Early life

Beacham, one of four siblings, was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, the daughter of Joan (née Wilkins), a housewife, and Alic, who was an insurance consultant and the managing director of the Grosvenor estate. She attended Queen Elizabeth's Girls' Grammar School in Barnet, France, and later travelled to Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris, France, to study mime with Étienne Decroux, then to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.

Personal life

Beacham is partially deaf, with no hearing in her right ear and 80 percent hearing in her left ear.

She married actor John McEnery in 1973 and became pregnant immediately after the wedding but then suffered a miscarriage when she was three months pregnant. In an interview, she revealed that her stillborn son was cremated. Beacham and McEnery were divorced in 1979, but they stayed married for more than ten years. They have two daughters, Phoebe (1974) and Chloe (1977). Imran Khan, then a cricketer, was dated in the 1980s, and later a politician who became Pakistan's Prime Minister in 2018.

In 2009, beacham was successfully treated for skin cancer. She had a recurrence of the disease in 2011, but she has since recovered.

In March 2016, Beacham told The Sunday Telegraph that she had been assaulted while she had been an up-and-coming actress in her twenties.

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Career

Beacham's initial aim was to teach dance to deaf children, but she began a career in modelling and then moved into television. In 1967, she appeared in The Queen's Traitor, her first screen appearance. Barnet seemed uninterested in a forensic interview, she told a Northern Echo reporter that she was born in Casablanca, where her favorite Bogart/Bergman film was set. Beacham's first film roles were in The Saint, Callan, and UFO, a television series produced in 1970. She would appear in The Nightcomers, a 1971 film in which she costarred Marlon Brando. In one scene during filming of which Brando wore Y-fronts and wellington boots under the bed clothes to ensure that the winner did not film anything lower than was necessary, the beacham appeared nude. Beacham would have participated in horrors during this period, and she was later cast as Jessica Van Helsing in Hammer's Dracula A.D. 1972 alongside Peter Cushing.

Beacham's career continued to be seen on film, television, and on stage. Her next role was as a repertory player with the Nottingham Playhouse, where she appeared in several leading and supporting roles, including Nora in the Henrik Ibsen play A Doll's House. Georgina Layton appeared in Thames Television's daytime drama Marked Personal in 1973. Si pu'esti basero dell'istardi Cliff made an Italian film last year. In 1977, Mafia Junction, and in the United Kingdom as Blue Movie Blackmail. Later, it was retitled as Super Bitch as the film's producers attempted to cash in on the popularity of Joan Collins' film The Bitch, which was later released on home video, later renamed as Super Bitch. Beacham has since worked in horror films, including And Now the Screaming (1973), House of Mortal Sin (1976), Schizo (1976), and Insemino (1981), a film in which she confesses to paying for the fee.

Beacham appeared as a member of the BBC series Tenko in 1981-1982, describing a group of women prisoners of war held captive by the Japanese after their takeover of Singapore in 1942. After this, she continued to work in theatre and television until landing the lead role in Connie (1985), a 13-part ITV drama series. Her appearances in Tenko and Connie aided her in transitioning her into one of her most recalled roles, that of the devious matriarch Sable Colby of the television series The Colbys (1985-1977). The Colbys was a spin-off of the opulent prime-time soap Dynasty, which had been the highest rating program in the United States this year. As the new show's tent-pole couple, Beacham was cast opposite Charlton Heston. The Colbys never saw the success of its parent show and was canned after two seasons, but Beacham was able to reprise the role of Sable on Dynasty in 1988, costarring Joan Collins in a season-long "battle of the bitsches" scenario.

Beacham was the first actor in the children's fantasy film The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, portraying an evil governess, after Dynasty was cancelled in 1989. She was then cast in the US sitcom Sister Kate, as a nun caring for children in an orphanage. The series lasted for one season and was cancelled in 1990, though she received a Golden Globe Award for the role. She then returned to Britain to play Mrs. Peacock in an ITV game show version of the board game Cluedo (1990). Beacham also appeared in the well-known teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210, as Iris McKay, Luke Perry's estranged mother. Beacham appeared in six Spelling television shows, including Dynasty and its spin-off, The Love Boat, Beverly Hills, Burke's Law, and Charmed. Beacham accepted the role of Dr. Kristin Westphalen in the NBC science fiction film seaQuest DSV, directed by Steven Spielberg in 1993. Beacham's character was the chief oceanographer and medical doctor for the submarine seaQuest, but the program was cut after its first season. She continued to make guest appearances on television shows throughout the 1990s, appearing on television shows in both the United Kingdom and the United States. She appeared in the BBC drama No Bananas, which was set during the war years in 1996.

Beacham returned to the United Kingdom in 2003 to star in the ITV prison drama Bad Girls. Phyllida "Phyl" Oswyn, a prisoner, spent four years with Beverly "Bev" Tull, who was played by Amanda Barrie, as the "Costa Cons" in the film. In 2006, she stayed with the series until it came to an end. In a Guildford production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, she appeared as the Wicked Witch. In a production of Jack and the Beanstalk that was the following year, she appeared in a production of Jack and the Beanstalk the following year. Love and Other Disasters, an Australian actress, appeared in the 2006 film Love and Other Disasters. In 2007, she returned to stage work and toured the UK as a leader in No. 4 Coward's No. 1's No. 1's No. 1's play Hay Fever. She appeared in the 2007 edition of Strictly Come Dancing with professional partner Vincent Simone, but she was disqualified early in the competition (second of fourteen celebrities) on October 14th.

Beacham was announced on November 27, 2008, it was announced that she was joined by ITV's Coronation Street portraying Martha Fraser, a love interest for Ken Barlow (played by William Roache). She made her first appearance on January 26, 2009, her last on May 2009.

Beacham appeared in the final episode of BBC show Material Girl on February 17, 2010. She made a guest appearance in the long-running BBC hospital drama series Casualty on Tuesday. Maria Callas appeared in a Master Class tour in the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2011.

Beacham's autobiography Many Lives, in which she addresses her life and work, was released in October 2011. The book also includes a foreword by Coronation Street co-star William Roache. Beacham was reunited with her Dynasty co-star Joan Collins in a UK television commercial for Snickers in 2012, but the ad was later re-edited and Beacham's appearance was cut. Lorraine Chain, the store manager of Sky1's grocery-based sitcom Trollied, appeared on eight episodes between August 2012 and October 2012. In the same year, she appeared in three episodes of Sky Living's Mount Pleasant as Aunt Pam.

Beacham appeared on ITV's daytime chat show Loose Women in January 2013 to highlight her appearance on the first episode of the second series of Death in Paradise, which aired on January 8, 2013. Beacham appeared on Channel 4's seventh and final series of Celebrity Big Brother on January 3, 2010; she was the only female to make it to the final and ended in fifth place on January 29, 2010.

Beacham was instrumental in the introduction of the Sense-National Deafblind and Rubella Association Fill in the Gaps campaign, which aims to give seniors the assistance they need to maintain a high quality of life. In June 2006, she was also at the commencement of the campaign in Parliament. Beacham appeared on BBC Radio 2's Graham Norton Show in September 2016 and talked about her role as Princess Margaret. In October that year, Richard Stirling's A Princess Undone premiered at the Cambridge Arts Theatre and is "set to scandalize royal family supporters." Melanie Blake, Beacham's agent and novelist, revealed plans to debut Falcon Bay, a British soap opera. If she wins the rights to the show, Beacham will appear in the soap, she said.

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