Elizabeth Macdonald Sellars (6 May 1921 â€" 30 December 2019) was a
Scottish actress.Sellars was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter
of Stephen Sellars and Jean Sutherland. She appeared on the stage from
the age of 15, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She
also studied law for five years in England.Sellars worked with ENSA
during World War II, entertaining British troops. She made her first
London stage appearance in 1946 in The Brothers Karamazov, directed by
Peter Brook and sharing the stage with Alec Guinness. She later
appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company as Elizabeth in Richard
III, Helen in Troilus and Cressida, Gertrude in Hamlet and Hermione in
The Winter's Tale. She played opposite Valentine Dyall, Louise Hampton
and Anthony Ireland in The Other Side, at the Comedy Theatre, London,
in 1946.
Scottish actress.Sellars was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter
of Stephen Sellars and Jean Sutherland. She appeared on the stage from
the age of 15, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She
also studied law for five years in England.Sellars worked with ENSA
during World War II, entertaining British troops. She made her first
London stage appearance in 1946 in The Brothers Karamazov, directed by
Peter Brook and sharing the stage with Alec Guinness. She later
appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company as Elizabeth in Richard
III, Helen in Troilus and Cressida, Gertrude in Hamlet and Hermione in
The Winter's Tale. She played opposite Valentine Dyall, Louise Hampton
and Anthony Ireland in The Other Side, at the Comedy Theatre, London,
in 1946.
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