Sheila Manahan
Sheila Manahan was an Irish actress on stage and screen. She was associated with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in the 1940s, and had supporting roles at least ten films between 1948 and 1965. She also acted in radio productions and television programs.
Early life
Manahan was born in Dublin on New Year's Day in 1924, the daughter of Captain John Manahan. She attended Scoil Mhuire, and was bilingual in Irish and English. She began acting in plays as a teenager.Career
Manahan was an actress with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin during World War II. In 1948 she was in the original cast of Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not For Burning, in London. In 1952 she starred in Margaret Macloud's comedy Quest in London. On radio she acted in Sean O'Casey plays.Among her film roles were Shelah Flaherty in Saints and Sinners, Ann Willingdon in Seven Days to Noon, Rose Moresby in Footsteps in the Fog, Esther's mother in The Story of Esther Costello, and Mrs. Jenkins in Only Two Can Play, with Peter Sellers and Mai Zetterling. On television, she was in an adaptation of Frank O'Connor's 1939 story "First Confession", broadcast on Thirty-Minute Theatre in 1969. Her last television role was as Peter Blake's mother in Dear John.