Elizabeth Sellars

Elizabeth Macdonald Sellars (6 May 1921 – 30 December 2019) was a Scottish actress.

Sellars was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She appeared on the stage from the age of 15, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She also studied law for five years in England.

She made her first London appearance in 1946 in The Brothers Karamazov, and later appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company as Elizabeth in Richard III, Helen in Troilus and Cressida, Gertrude in Hamlet and Hermione in The Winter's Tale.

Sellars entered films with Floodtide (1949). She appeared in a string of British films in the 1950s and 1960s, and also a few Hollywood films, usually in secondary roles, including The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Désirée (1954), Prince of Players (1955), The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960), 55 Days at Peking (1963) and The Chalk Garden (1964). She was the main female lead in a number of films, including The Long Memory (1953), The Last Man to Hang? (1956), Never Let Go (1960) and The Webster Boy (1962). She also appeared frequently on television, most notably in A Voyage Round My Father (1982) with Laurence Olivier.

On 8 September 1960, Sellars married Francis Austin Henley in Stow-on-the-Wold, England. They remained together until his death on 31 January 2009.

Sellars died in France on 30 December 2019 at the age of 98.