Anne Stallybrass

Anne Stallybrass (born 1938, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex) is a British actress who trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

After three years training at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the Drama Gold Medal, Anne began her professional acting career by spending several years in repertory, gaining experience in Folkestone Kent, with the Arthur Brough Players, before moving to Nottingham and then Sheffield.

The television roles for which she is best known are: Jane Seymour in "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" (1970), and Anne Onedin in the long-running "Onedin Line". Other major roles include Anna Strauss in "The Strauss Family" (1972), Susan Henchard in "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (1978 adaptation), and Muriel Thomas in "The Old Devils" (1992).

She has been married twice and has no children. She met her first husband, Roger Rowland, whilst working in Nottingham and married him in 1963. The couple separated after nine years of marriage and later divorced. Peter Gilmore's second marriage broke up not long after and the friendship between the two Onedin Line stars gradually developed, they fell in love and moved in together. In 1987, after ten years together, Anne and Peter married. They live in Barnes, west London and have a small cottage in Dartmouth, Devon - where "The Onedin Line" was originally filmed.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821749/ IMDb biography]
* [http://www.gilmore-stallybrass.eu Anne Stallybrass and Peter Gilmore] A site dedicated to the actors Anne Stallybrass and Peter Gilmore