Sheila Hancock played Sarah Medows in an episode of Kavanagh QC entitled Blood Money.
She traced her family tree on Who Do You Think You Are?
In February 2007, Sheila Hancock won the best performance in a supporting role in a musical award for Cabaret at the Laurence Olivier theatre awards.
Sheila Hancock has written various books including Just Me.
She lost two husbands to cancer. Her second husband was the actor John Thaw.
She wrote a memoir of her marriage to John Thaw entitled The Two Of Us.
In 2010, Sheila Hancock joined the expert panel helping the nation to decide who will be the best Dorothy, in the Over The Rainbow for BBC One.
She herself has amassed several musical theatre credits including Annie, Sweeney Todd and Cabaret.
