---
name: "Elizabeth Sellars"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elizabeth-sellars"
fi1m_id: "elizabeth-sellars"
imdb_id: "nm0783288"
tmdb_id: 115780
wikidata_id: "Q168423"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 May 1921"
died: "30 December 2019"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:48:37.027585+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Elizabeth Sellars

## Identity

Elizabeth Sellars

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/elizabeth-sellars
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** elizabeth-sellars
- **IMDb ID:** nm0783288
- **TMDB ID:** 115780
- **Wikidata ID:** Q168423
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Sellars, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168423, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783288/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/115780

Actor. Born 6 May 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Died 30 December 2019.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 May 1921, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- **Died:** 30 December 2019
- **Also known as:** Elizabeth Macdonald Sellars
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Sellars, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168423, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783288/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/115780

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Barefoot Contessa*](https://film.one/film/the-barefoot-contessa.md) (74)

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## Biography

Elizabeth Sellars (6 May 1921 – 30 December 2019) was a Scottish actress. Born in Glasgow, she studied law before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She made her London stage debut in 1946 in *The Brothers Karamazov*, directed by Peter Brook and starring Alec Guinness, and later performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Sellars entered films with *Floodtide* (1949) and appeared in a range of British and Hollywood productions, including *The Barefoot Contessa* (1954) as Jerry, *Désirée* (1954), *55 Days at Peking* (1963) and *The Chalk Garden* (1964). She also worked regularly in television and on stage, with credits extending into the 1980s.

In 1960 she married surgeon Francis Austin Henley, who died in 2009. Sellars died at her home in France, aged 98.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, thetimes.com, theguardian.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Barefoot Contessa* (1954), Fi1m 74, as Jerry — [page](https://film.one/film/the-barefoot-contessa.md)

## Complete filmography (54)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Ghost in Monte Carlo* (1990), as Countess Kissler
- *The Dunroamin' Rising* (1988), as Jean Sutherland
- *The Play on One* (1988), series, as Jean Sutherland
- *Farrington of the F.O.* (1986), series, as Delia Murdock
- *A Voyage Round My Father* (1984), as Mother
- *Last Love* (1983), as Annabel Fox
- *Number 10* (1983), series, as Lady Bradford
- *Dear Brutus* (1981), as Mrs. Coade
- *Beasts: During Barty's Party* (1976), as Angie Truscott
- *Beasts* (1976), series, as Angie Truscott
- *Shades of Greene* (1975), series, as Marie
- *Churchill's People* (1974), series, as Albrida
- *The Hireling* (1973), as Lady Franklin's mother
- *Late Night Theatre* (1972), series, as The Woman
- *Play for Today* (1970), series, as Mrs. Coade, Annabel Fox
- *Shadows of Fear* (1970), series, as Isabel
- *W. Somerset Maugham* (1969), series, as Lena Finch
- *The Mummy's Shroud* (1967), as Barbara Preston
- *R3* (1964), series, as Dr. May Howard
- *The Wednesday Play* (1964), series, as Julia Graham
- *The Chalk Garden* (1964), as Olivia
- *Love Story* (1963), series, as Jane
- *55 Days at Peking* (1963), as Lady Sarah Robertson
- *The Webster Boy* (1962), as Margaret Webster
- *Drama 61-67* (1961), series, as Ruth Bentley
- *The Avengers* (1961), series, as Laura — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-avengers-1961.md)
- *The Day They Robbed the Bank of England* (1960), as Iris Muldoon
- *Never Let Go* (1960), as Anne Cummings
- *Jet Storm* (1959), as Inez Barrington
- *One Step Beyond* (1959), series, as Mary Low
- *Law and Disorder* (1958), as Gina Laselle
- *Ordeal by Fire* (1957), as Françoise de Gaillemarde
- *The Shiralee* (1957), as Marge
- *The Man in the Sky* (1957), as Mary Mitchell
- *The Last Man to Hang* (1956), as Daphne Strood
- *Armchair Theatre* (1956), series, as Lise, Jennifer Sibley
- *ITV Play of the Week* (1955), series, as Anne Norbury
- *Three Cases of Murder* (1955), as Elizabeth ("You Killed Elizabeth" segment)
- *Prince of Players* (1955), as Asia Booth
- *Désirée* (1954), as Julie
- *The Barefoot Contessa* (1954), as Jerry — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-barefoot-contessa.md)
- *Forbidden Cargo* (1954), as Rita Compton
- *Three's Company* (1953), as Diane Graham
- *Recoil* (1953), as Jean Talbot
- *The Long Memory* (1953), as Fay Lowther
- *The Broken Horseshoe* (1953), as Della Freeman
- *The Postman* (1952), Actor
- *The Gentle Gunman* (1952), as Maureen Fagan
- *Hunted* (1952), as Magda Lloyd
- *Night Was Our Friend* (1951), as Sally
- *Cloudburst* (1951), as Carol Graham
- *Guilt Is My Shadow* (1950), as Linda
- *Madeleine* (1950), as Christina Haggott
- *Floodtide* (1949), as Judy

## Gallery

- ![Elizabeth Sellars](https://film.one/media/person/3872734/gallery-cbe88e7059c6.jpg) Elizabeth Sellars — TV episode screenshot (ABC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Elizabeth_Sellars_in_One_Step_Beyond_%28The_Villa%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Elizabeth Sellars](https://film.one/media/person/3872734/gallery-987a8c7f2306.jpg) Elizabeth Sellars — Image via TMDB
- ![Elizabeth Sellars](https://film.one/media/person/3872734/gallery-e8bd7d2914df.jpg) Elizabeth Sellars — Image via TMDB
- ![Elizabeth Sellars](https://film.one/media/person/3872734/gallery-6812780f6696.jpg) Elizabeth Sellars — Image via TMDB
- ![Elizabeth Sellars](https://film.one/media/person/3872734/gallery-6abaeac52d1d.jpg) Elizabeth Sellars — Image via TMDB

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