Sheila Hancock

ActorWriter Feb 22 (age 93) Blackgang, Isle of Wight, England, UK 1949–2025 (76 year career)

6.3 avg rating

Highest Rated

Playing Shakespeare

1984

10.0

The BAFTA Awards

1949 · as Self

10.0

Great Canal Journeys

2014 · as Self

8.8

Known For

Film

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Grandma

Film

This Beautiful Fantastic

Mother Superior

Film

Unforgotten

Eileen Baildon

Film

Alice in Wonderland

Cook

Film

3 Men and a Little Lady

Vera

Film

Carry On Cleo

Senna Pod

Film

Edie

Film

Remember Me

Loveday Hutton

Filmography

Acting (126)

Movies (55)

Second Skin

2025

as Cathryn

Tommy Cooper: The Lost Tapes

2024

as Herself

From This Day Forward

2019

as Her

Edie

2018

as Edie

6.3

The More You Ignore Me

as Nan Wildgoose

The Dark Mile

as Mary

This Beautiful Fantastic

2016

as Mother Superior

7.1

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

2016

as Self - Actress

6.6

The Brilliant Brontë Sisters

2013

as Self

Delicious

Just Henry

as Gran

The Rain Has Stopped

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

2008

as Grandma

7.8

The Last Word Monologues

After Thomas

as Granny Pat

Yes

as Aunt

The Practicality of Magnolia

Bait

as Pam Raeburn

Love or Money

as Teresa

Alice in Wonderland

as Cook

Hold Back the Night

as Vera

Love and Death on Long Island

1998

as Mrs. Barker

6.3

A Night in with the Girls

Dangerous Lady

A Business Affair

as Judith

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

1993

as Anna Maria (voice)

My Kingdom for a Horse

1991

as Joan Deakin

3 Men and a Little Lady

1990

as Vera

5.9

Royal Enclosure

1990

as Doreen

Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol

as Helen A

The Love Child

as Edith

Buster

as Mrs. Rothery

Hawks

as Regina

The Universe of Dermot Finn

1988

as Mother of Pearl

Making Waves

1987

as Doris

6.4

The Remainder Man

1982

as Ellen

The Golden Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales

1982

as Narrorator

7.0

The Wildcats of St Trinian's

1980

as Olga Vandemeer

3.9

Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical

as Self/Mrs. Lovett

Take a Girl Like You

as Martha Thompson

The Magnificent Six and ½: It's Not Cricket

1969

as Secretary

Entertaining Mr. Sloane

1968

as Kath

Horizontal Hold

1968

as Naomi Woodley

The Anniversary

1968

as Karen Taggart

6.5

How I Won the War

1967

as Mrs. Clapper's Friend

5.5

Compensation Alice

1967

as Alice

Carry On Cleo

as Senna Pod

The Moon-Spinners

as Cynthia Gamble

Night Must Fall

as Dora Parkoe

The Girl on the Boat

as Jane Hubbard

Twice Round the Daffodils

1962

as Dora

6.6

Doctor in Love

1960

as Librarian (uncredited)

5.2

The Bulldog Breed

1960

as Doris (uncredited)

5.7

Light Up the Sky!

1960

as Theatre Act

6.2

Frank and Percy

Television (71)

VE Day 80

2025

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

My Life at Christmas with Anita Rani

2024

as Self - Interviewed Guest

7.0

The Sixth Commandment

2023

as Elizabeth Zettl

6.6

Amol Rajan Interviews

2021

as Self - Interviewed Guest

Celebrity Gogglebox

2019

as Self

6.6

A Discovery of Witches

2018

as Goody Alsop

7.8

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa

2018

as Self

Urban Myths

2017

as Gala Dali

7.4

Don't Ask Me Ask Britain

2017

as Herself

Delicious

as Mimi Vincent

Unforgotten

as Eileen Baildon

Great Canal Journeys

as Self

Remember Me

as Loveday Hutton

Endeavour

as Dowsable Chattox

Toast of London

Playhouse Presents

The Story of Musicals

2012

as Self

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

as Self - Participant

Perspectives

In Confidence

Moving On

as Liz

Kate Garraway's Life Stories

2009

as Self

5.9

My Life In Verse

2009

as Self

The Last Word Monologues

2008

Would I Lie to You?

2007

as Self

7.8

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

as Self

Fallen Angel

as Lady Youlgreave

The One Show

as Self - Interviewed Guest

Bleak House

as Mrs. Guppy

Hustle

as Dolly Hammond

New Tricks

as Grace Pullman

Who Do You Think You Are?

2004

as Self

6.7

The Paul O'Grady Show

2004

4.6

The Catherine Tate Show

as Auntie June

Feather Boy

as Edith Sorrel

Grumpy Old Women

as Self

Fortysomething

as Gwendolen Hartley

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

2001

as Self

6.0

The Russian Bride

2001

as Dora Blossom

Bedtime

as Alice Oldfield

Close Relations

as Dorothy Hammond

Kavanagh Q.C.

as Sarah Meadows

The Buccaneers

as Duchess of Trevenick

Room 101

as Self

The World of Hammer

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

Brighton Belles

1993

as Frances

3.3

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

1992

as Anna Maria (voice)

6.2

Terry Wogan's Friday Night

as Self

Gone to Seed

as Mag Plant

Gone to the Dogs

as Jean

Have I Got News for You

as Self

This Morning

as Self

Bulman

Home to Roost

as Sue

Playing Shakespeare

Six Fifty-Five Special

1981

as Self

Now Take My Wife

Play for Today

as Ellen

Shadows of Fear

as Anne Brand

Menace

Mr Digby, Darling

Omnibus

as Self

ITV Playhouse

as Naomi Woodley

The Bed-Sit Girl

Detective

as Mrs. Markle

Doctor Who

as Helen A.

Festival

as Winifred

The Rag Trade

Armchair Theatre

as Alice

The BAFTA Awards

as Self

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Royal Enclosure

1990

Writer