Sarah Churchill (actress)

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Sarah Churchill (1966)
Sarah Churchill (right) with her father at the Cairo Conference in 1943

Sarah Millicent Hermione Touchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley (born October 7, 1914 in London - † September 24, 1982 , ibid) was a British actress , dancer and daughter of Winston Churchill .

life and career

Sarah Churchill was born the third of five children to future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine . It was named after the Duchess Sarah Churchill , an ancestor of Winston. She was a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II and often accompanied her father on trips abroad.

Sarah Churchill studied ballet and made her stage debut at the age of 21. She performed in both London and Broadway in New York. Churchill was best known for her role in the musical Royal Wedding , in which she acted as a film partner of Fred Astaire . In the 1950s she also starred in a large number of television films, in which she often played historical figures such as Harriet Quimby , Florence Nightingale , Charlotte Brontë , Jeanne d'Arc and Sarah Bernhardt . She last appeared on stage as an actress in 1971.

Sarah Churchill occasionally rebelled against her family, so she married the singer Vic Oliver in 1936 against the wishes of her parents . In 1945 the marriage was divorced. From 1949 until his death in 1957 she was married to Anthony Beauchamp, her third and last husband Lord Audley Touchet-Jesson died in 1963 after only one year of marriage. In 1981 she published her autobiography Keep On Dancing . Sarah Churchill died in 1982 at the age of 67 after a prolonged illness.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1937: Who's Your Lady Friend?
  • 1941: Spring Meeting
  • 1949: All Over the Town
  • 1951: Royal Wedding (Royal Wedding)
  • 1951: The Sarah Churchill Show (TV series)
  • 1955: Alice in Wonderland (TV movie)
  • 1956–1958: Matinee Theater (TV series, 13 episodes)
  • 1959: Serious Charge

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b AP: SARAH CHURCHILL DEAD IN LONDON; DAUGHTER OF SIR WINSTON WAS 67 . ( nytimes.com [accessed June 27, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Alex Hudson: The castaway who annoyed Churchill . In: BBC News . 2012 ( bbc.com [accessed June 27, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Churchill, Sarah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarah Millicent Hermione Touchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress, dancer and daughter of Winston Churchill
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1982
Place of death London