Athole Shearer est née le 20 novembre 1900 au Québec, Canada. Elle était actrice. Elle était mariée à Howard Hawks et John Ward. Elle est morte le 17 mars 1985 en Californie, États-Unis.
As recounted by Gavin Lambert in his biography of Norma Shearer, by the late 1950s and into the 1960s, Miss Shearer had a dread of mental illness overtaking her. Or, as she put it to intimates, a fear "of going Athole's way.".
