Sheila Gish
Sheila Gish ( born April 23, 1942 in Lincoln; † 9 March 2005 in London; actually Sheila Gash ) was a British theater and film actress.
Life
Early childhood spent the daughter of a British officer in Egypt and the Sudan before it was sent to the Royal School for Daughters of Officers of the Army in Bath. Her acting training she received at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Gish played mainly theater, but also took on numerous television and film roles. Their most famous film role was that of Rachel Elle Stone in Russell Mulcahy's cult film Highlander - There can be only one.
Gish was married from 1964 to 1985 with the actor Roland Curram (* 1932). They had two daughters, both also actresses: Lou Gish (1967-2006) and Kay Curram (* 1974). His second wife Sheila Gish married in March 2004 in Antigua the actor Denis Lawson (* 1947), with whom she had lived since 1985.
Gish died from a rare form of facial cancer, 2003, she had broken out in 2002 due to the disease is already removed the right eye. In the same year she played her last stage role, the Arcadina in Stephen Pimlotts staging of Chekhov's The Seagull at the Chichester Festival Theatre with an eye patch. The actress was buried at Highgate Cemetery in London.
Lou Gish, her older daughter, died in February 2006, also from cancer. Sheila Gish was the aunt of the famous Scottish actor Ewan McGregor.