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Shirley Ann Field was born in London in 1938 and was a model and (briefly) repertory
actress. She was featured as the first of a steady stream of sweet ingenues in 1955's
Simon and Laura. Thereafter, Field became one of busiest young actresses in the
British film industry, with meaty roles in such films as Upstairs and
Downstairs (1959), Peeping Tom (1960) and These Are The Damned (1962). Her screen
image was demure to the point of dullness, a quality cleverly exploited in the 1960
film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, wherein with deceptive guilessness she traps
Albert Finney into a loveless marriage. By the time Field appeared in Alfie (1966),
her acting skills had sharpened but her popularity was on the wane. After several
years on stage and in TV, Field returned to films as a character actress in 1977;
her last film to date was 1991's Hear My Song. An occasional visitor to American
shores, Shirley Anne Field appeared in 1984 on the NBC daytime drama Santa
Barbara, playing the role of Pamela Capwell until other commitments obliged her
to relinquish the part to Marj Dusay.
She returned to films as a character
actress in the late 1980’s, most notably in My Beautiful Launderette (1985),
The Rachel Papers (1989) and Hear My Song (1991). She has continued to appear on
the small-screen in television series including Dalziel & Pascoe and The Bill.
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