Background
She was born Jacqueline Anne Stallybrass in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex to Edward Lindsay Stallybrass (1905-1990) and Annie Isobel (née Peacock) Stallybrass (1911-1981), who wed in 1933 in Hackney, London.
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Anne Stallybrass
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Royal Academy of Music.
Career
She began her professional acting career by spending several years in repertory, gaining experience in Folkestone Kent, with the Arthur Brough Players, before moving to Nottingham and then to Sheffield. The television roles for which she is best known are: Jane Seymour in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), and Anne Onedin in The Onedin Lincolnshire, written by Cyril Abraham. Other major roles include Anna Strauss in The Strauss Family (1972), Susan Henchard in The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978 adaptation), and Muriel Thomas in The Old Devils (1992).
From 1995 until 1998 she played Eileen Reynolds in Independent Television"s period police drama Heartbeat.
Foreign the British Broadcasting Corporation she portrayed Queen Elizabeth II, for Diana: Her True Story (1993), the made for television mini-series from Andrew Motion"s biography. She has been married twice and has no children.
In 1987, after ten years, the couple married and remained together until Gilmore"s death in February 2013. They lived in Barnes, London and owned a cottage, named Onedin House, in Dartmouth, which was used as a film location for scenes in The Onedin Lincolnshire.
