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Acting

Sheila Hancock

Career: Active from 1961 to 2025, busiest in 1988 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 31
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: Feather Boy
76/100

Characters

4

The characters Sheila Hancock played, best-known titles first.

Sheila Hancock as Elizabeth Zettl

Sheila Hancock as Gwendolen Hartley

Sheila Hancock as Mimi Vincent

Sheila Hancock as Presenter

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 43 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Sheila Hancock Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
3.1, average 4.8
Violence
2.7, average 4.1
Scare
1.8, average 2.6
Tension
5.2, average 5.9

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 6
Character Study 5
Emotional Journey 3
Family Drama 3
British Comedy-Drama 2
Psychological Drama 2
British Sitcom 2
Thought-Provoking 2
Darkly Humorous 2
Relatable Struggles 2
Emotional Nuance 2
Coming-of-Age Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

96

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

2 titles · average score 81

Second Skin

as Cathryn

The Sixth Commandment

81

TV show · as Elizabeth Zettl

2010s

16 titles · average score 69

From This Day Forward

as Her

Edie

60

as Edie

A Discovery of Witches

71

TV show · as Goody Alsop

The More You Ignore Me

72

as Nan Wildgoose

The Dark Mile

as Mary

Urban Myths

72

TV show · as Gala Dali

Delicious

65

TV show · as Mimi Vincent

Unforgotten

77

TV show · as Eileen Baildon

Endeavour

85

TV show · as Dowsable Chattox

Toast of London

75

TV show

Playhouse Presents

63

TV show · as Melba

Just Henry

62

as Gran

2000s

19 titles · average score 69

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

68

as Grandma

After Thomas

72

as Granny Pat

Yes

58

as Aunt

Feather Boy

76

TV show · as Edith Sorrel

Grumpy Old Women

TV show

Hustle

73

TV show · as Dolly Hammond

New Tricks

83

TV show · as Grace Pullman

The Paul O'Grady Show

35

TV show

Bait

as Pam Raeburn

Bedtime

TV show · as Alice Oldfield

The Russian Bride

TV show · as Dora Blossom

Love or Money

as Teresa

1990s

17 titles · average score 60

Hold Back the Night

56

as Vera

Love and Death on Long Island

74

as Mrs. Barker

Close Relations

TV show · as Dorothy Hammond

Dangerous Lady

TV show · as Sarah Ryan

Kavanagh Q.C.

75

TV show · as Sarah Meadows

A Business Affair

46

as Judith

Brighton Belles

TV show · as Frances

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding

as Anna Maria (voice)

Gone to Seed

TV show · as Mag Plant

My Kingdom for a Horse

as Joan Deakin

3 Men and a Little Lady

51

as Vera

TV show · as Doreen

1980s

13 titles · average score 65

Jumping The Queue

TV show · as Matilda Poliport

The Universe of Dermot Finn

as Mother of Pearl

Buster

57

as Mrs. Rothery

The Love Child

as Edith

Hawks

69

as Regina

Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol

as Helen A

Making Waves

as Doris

Home to Roost

66

TV show · as Sue

Playing Shakespeare

96

TV show

Dramarama

TV show · as Rita Chartell

The Golden Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales

as Narrorator

The Wildcats of St Trinian's

41

as Olga Vandemeer

1970s

5 titles · average score 54

Now Take My Wife

TV show

Take a Girl Like You

37

as Martha Thompson

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Ellen

Shadows of Fear

TV show · as Anne Brand

Menace

TV show · as Rose

1960s

23 titles · average score 62

The Anniversary

66

as Karen Taggart

Entertaining Mr. Sloane

as Kath

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Kaff / Naomi Woodley

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as Cynthia / Vi

The Bed-Sit Girl

TV show

Night Must Fall

65

as Dora Parkoe

Carry On Cleo

69

as Senna Pod

Detective

TV show · as Mrs. Markle

The Moon-Spinners

61

as Cynthia Gamble

Doctor Who

76

TV show · as Helen A.

The Girl on the Boat

58

as Jane Hubbard

The Rag Trade

TV show

1950s

1 title · average score 68

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Alice