Stephanie Beacham is an English television, film and theatre actress. She is known for playing Sable Colby in the ABC soap operas The Colbys and Dynasty. Her other television roles include Phyl Oswyn in the ITV prison-based drama series Bad Girls and Martha Fraser in Coronation Street.
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Stephanie Beacham is an English television, film and theatre actress. She is known for playing Sable Colby in the ABC soap operas The Colbys and Dynasty. Her film appearances include Dracula A. D. 1972, Schizo and Troop Beverly Hills. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role in the NBC sitcom Sister Kate. Her other television roles include Phyl Oswyn in the ITV prison-based drama series Bad Girls, Martha Fraser in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street and Lorraine in the Sky One sitcom Trollied. On stage, she starred as Maria Callas in a 2010 UK touring production of the play Master Class. Beacham, one of four siblings, was born in Barnet, London, England, the daughter of Joan, a housewife, and a father who was an insurance executive and the managing director of the Grosvenor estate. She attended Barnet’s Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ Grammar School and later travelled to Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris, France, to study mime with Étienne Decroux.
Her initial goal was to teach dance movement to deaf children, but she began a career in modelling and then began acting in television. She made her big screen debut in the 1970 film The Games, before starring opposite Marlon Brando in the 1971 film The Nightcomers. Her next role was as a repertory player with the Nottingham Playhouse, where she played several lead and feature roles, including the role of Nora in the Henrik Ibsen play A Doll’s House. In 1973, she played Georgina Layton in Thames Television’s daytime drama Marked Personal. The same year, she made an Italian film, Si puÙ essere più bastardi dell’ispettore Cliff? The film was released in the US in 1977 as Mafia Junction and in the UK as Blue Movie Blackmail. From 1981 to 1982, Beacham featured as a member of the ensemble cast of the BBC series Tenko, about a group of women prisoners of war held captive by the Japanese after their invasion of Singapore in 1942.
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