Sheila Fearn

Sheila Fearn (born 3 October 1940 in Leicester) is a retired British 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 later on as Ann Fourmile, the next door neighbour in the popular Thames Television sitcom George and Mildred.

Early life
She attended Gateway Girls Grammar School on Elbow Lane in Leicester, which closed in 1960.

Career
On film she appeared in Billy Liar (1963), Catch Us If You Can (1965) and Time Bandits (1981), as well as the film versions of both The Likely Lads (1976) and George and Mildred (1980). Fearn's other television credits include Adam Adamant Lives!, Paul Temple, Crown Court, East of Ipswich by Michael Palin, Emergency – Ward 10, Walter, Z-Cars and The Avengers. She also played Freddie, a girlfriend of Ronnie Corbett's character Timothy, in Sorry! She also appeared many times with the Scaffold.

Likely Lads writer Ian La Frenais said of her "she was sexy and funny and she knew John Lennon...Sheila always found time for everyone, and I now think of her and Audrey with great affection".

Fearn retired from acting in 1988, after sustaining a broken leg during a fall from the third biggest mountain in the world at that time. Her injury left her with a prominent limp, making her less appealing to casting directors.