Sheila Ward was born in Newcastle - On - Tyne in the thirties, to a Scots Oil Representative
father, and a Southern English mother. During the War Sheila was evacuated to Cumbria
w...view moreSheila Ward was born in Newcastle - On - Tyne in the thirties, to a Scots Oil Representative
father, and a Southern English mother. During the War Sheila was evacuated to Cumbria
with her two sisters, she later went to boarding school in the North and in Germany, where
her father worked for the Control Commission. When she contracted Polio, her parents
promised that if she recovered they would allow her to apply for an audition to RADA. On
regaining use of her arm and passing the audition, she was awarded a bursay by Newcastle
Education Department.
On completion of the two year course Sheila was awarded a Diploma. She then went into
repertory theatre, toured the UK and met her ex RAF tea planter husband, living in Uganda,
Kenya and finally in South Africa. It was an unhappy marriage, and after three children and
a tragic death of a son, she discovered he was conducting an affair. It was the last straw for
Sheila, she left him and took the train to Jo’burg. (Egoli)view less