---
name: "Sheila Sim"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sheila-sim"
fi1m_id: "sheila-sim"
imdb_id: "nm0799257"
tmdb_id: 121004
wikidata_id: "Q4419444"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "5 June 1922"
died: "19 January 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T04:57:47.664480+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."
---

# Sheila Sim

## Identity

Sheila Sim

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sheila-sim
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sheila-sim
- **IMDb ID:** nm0799257
- **TMDB ID:** 121004
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4419444
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Sim, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4419444, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799257/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/121004

Actor. Born 5 June 1922 in Liverpool, England. Died 19 January 2016.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 June 1922, Liverpool, England
- **Died:** 19 January 2016
- **Also known as:** Lady Attenborough
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Sim, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4419444, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799257/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/121004

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Pandora and the Flying Dutchman*](https://film.one/film/pandora-and-the-flying-dutchman.md) (79)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Sheila Sim was an English film and theatre actress. Born Sheila Beryl Grant Sim in Liverpool in 1922, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and appeared in films from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s.

Her film credits include *A Canterbury Tale* (1944), *Pandora and the Flying Dutchman* (1951) as Janet Fielding, and *I'm All Right Jack* (1959). On stage, she co-starred with her husband Richard Attenborough in the original London production of Agatha Christie's *The Mousetrap* (1952).

Sim retired from acting in the mid-1950s to raise their family. She was married to Attenborough from 1945 until his death in 2014 and died in 2016.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Pandora and the Flying Dutchman* (1951), Fi1m 79, as Janet Fielding — [page](https://film.one/film/pandora-and-the-flying-dutchman.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough* (2003), Actor
- *I'm All Right Jack* (1959), as Visitor (uncredited)
- *The Night My Number Came Up* (1955), as Mary Campbell
- *West of Zanzibar* (1954), as Mary Payton
- *The Magic Box* (1952), as Nursemaid
- *Pandora and the Flying Dutchman* (1951), as Janet Fielding — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/pandora-and-the-flying-dutchman.md)
- *Dear Mr. Prohack* (1949), as Mary Prohack
- *The Guinea Pig* (1948), as Lynne Hartley
- *Dancing with Crime* (1947), as Joy Goodall
- *The Queen's Husband* (1946), as Princess Anne
- *Great Day* (1945), as Margaret Ellis
- *A Canterbury Tale* (1944), as Alison Smith

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