Shirley Anne Field (b. 27 June 1938, Bolton, Lancashire) is a British actress who has performed on stage, film and television since 1955.
Shirley Anne Field was born Shirley Broomfield. She was the third of four children with two elder sisters and a younger brother. At the age of six she was placed in the National Children’s Home at Edgeworth, near Bolton and four years later was moved to another children’s home in Blackburn, where she attended Blakely Moor School for Girls. She subsequently returned to Edgeworth until she was 15 when she moved to a Children’s Home hostel in London training as a typist while still attending school.
After a course at the Lucy Clayton School and Model Agency she became a photographic model for pin-up magazines like Reveille and Titbits. She was subsequently spotted by Bill Watts, who ran a theatrical agency, who obtained a number of uncredited extra roles in various late fifties British films. Her first appearance in a film was as an extra… read more
Shirley Anne Field (b. 27 June 1938, Bolton, Lancashire) is a British actress who has performed on stage, film and television since 1955.
Shirley Anne Field was born Shirley Broomfield. She was the third of four children with two elder sisters and a younger brother. At the age of six she was placed in the National Children’s Home at Edgeworth, near Bolton and four years later was moved to another children’s home in Blackburn, where she attended Blakely Moor School for Girls. She subsequently returned to Edgeworth until she was 15 when she moved to a Children’s Home hostel in London training as a typist while still attending school.
After a course at the Lucy Clayton School and Model Agency she became a photographic model for pin-up magazines like Reveille and Titbits. She was subsequently spotted by Bill Watts, who ran a theatrical agency, who obtained a number of uncredited extra roles in various late fifties British films. Her first appearance in a film was as an extra in Simon and Laura (1955). Her movie breakthrough was when she was chosen by Laurence Olivier to play the prime female role in The Entertainer, 1960. The same year she appeared in probably her best known role as Doreen, the would-be girlfriend of rebellious Arthur Seaton (played by Albert Finney) in the influential British New Wave film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Her co-star Finney previously had a small role in The Entertainer). During the 1970s she spent some time on the stage before returning to films and TV appearances, in both the US and UK Television, in the 1980s, 90s, and 2000s.
She married the aristocratic RAF pilot and racing driver Charles Crichton-Stuart (1939 – 2001) on 7 July 1967 and they had one daughter, Nicola Crichton-Stuart, who was born the same year. The marriage subsequently ended in divorce during the late 1970s. She wrote her autobiography A Time for Love (1991). —Wikipedia
