Sheila Fearn

Sheila Fearn (born 3 October 1940 in Leicester) is an English retired actress best known for playing Audrey, the sister of Terry Collier in BBC situation comedies The Likely Lads and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, and also as Ann Fourmile, the next door neighbour in the Thames Television sitcom George and Mildred.

Fearn attended Gateway Girls Grammar School on Elbow Lane in Leicester, which closed in 1960.

Fearn's other television credits include Adam Adamant Lives!, Paul Temple, Crown Court, East of Ipswich by Michael Palin, Emergency Ward 10, Thriller (1 episode, 1974), Walter, Z-Cars and The Avengers.

Likely Lads writer Ian La Frenais said of her "she was sexy and funny and she knew John Lennon.

[1] Fearn left the industry in 1988, aged 48, after breaking a leg during a fall from a mountain, leaving her with a pronounced limp, which made her believe casting directors would no longer be inclined to employ her.