The English actress Jeanette Sterke was born in Prague in the former
Czechoslovakia in 1933. Her parents escaped the Nazis by fleeing to
England. After finishing her schooling, she attended the Royal Academy
of Dramatic Art. She made her TV debut in an adaptation of
Arthur Schnitzler's
Liebelei (1954) on the B.B.C.
in 1954. She regularly appeared on British TV through the early '70s.
Her last TV appearance was in 1986, in the mini-series
_My Brother Tom (TV) (1986)_.
She appeared less frequently in motion pictures. Her movie debut came
in 1955 in the
Alec Guinness film
The Prisoner (1955). The following
year she appeared with
Kirk Douglas
in
Lust for Life (1956). She also
appeared in
Fred Zinnemann's 1959
masterpiece
The Nun's Story (1959) as one of
Audrey Hepburn's "sisters", but in very
few movies after that.
Sterke also has appeared on stage, sometimes with her husband
Keith Michell, whom she married in
1957. They have a son,
Paul Michell, and a
daughter, the actress
Helena Michell.