Elizabeth Ann Sheridan Scarbrough was born on 12 July 1923 in Mexico City, of a British mother and Mexican father of Irish descent.

She was a distinguished student of the famous Japanese director and instructor Seki Sano, to whom she became an assistant in the direction of a number of theatrical montages.

[4] Sheridan's most remembered cinematographic work was arguably in Confidencias (1983), by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, based on the novel Pétalos perennes by Luis Zapata, and acting alongside María Rojo.

She also participated in the telenovelas Vivir un poco (1985), with Angélica Aragón, Alondra (1995), with Ana Colchero and Gonzalo Vega, and Amor real (2003), with Adela Noriega.

Her first directing appearance was through famed Chilean producer Valentín Pimstein in the telenovela Vivir un poco, where she served as director of dialogue.

[citation needed] Beatriz Sheridan died on Wednesday, 12 July 2005 at 4:44 am in her apartment in the Colonia San Miguel Chapultepec in Mexico City of a heart attack, at 82 years of age.

Her ashes were scattered in the Caribbean Sea, facing the beaches of Cozumel Island, Quintana Roo, Mexico, one of the actress's favorite places where she owned a house.