Stephanie Beacham Movies and Career Information

Stephanie Beacham (born 28 February 1947) is a British television, film and theatre actress. Beacham, one of four children, was born in Barnet, England, the daughter of Joan, a housewife, and a father who was an insurance executive and the managing director of the Grosvenor estate. Shortly after birth, she was diagnosed as being completely deaf in her right ear, as her mother had contracted chickenpox during her pregnancy. She has about 75% of normal hearing capacity in her left ear. She attended a Catholic girls' school (although she was not raised Catholic) and later travelled to Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris, France to study mime with Étienne Decroux, before attending Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. Her initial goal was to teach dance movement to deaf children, but she began a career in modelling, and was then cast for several parts in films. During an interview, thinking Barnet sounded uninteresting, she told a reporter from the Darlington Echo she was born in Casablanca, where her favourite Bogart/Bergman film was set. After many appearances in television series such as The Saint and Jason King, Beacham's first major film role was opposite Marlon Brando in