Jeanette Sterke
- Actress
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 L'emprisonné (1955). The following year she appeared with Kirk Douglas in La vie passionnée de Vincent van Gogh (1956). She also appeared in Fred Zinnemann's 1959 masterpiece Au risque de se perdre (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.
She appeared less frequently in motion pictures. Her movie debut came in 1955 in the Alec Guinness film L'emprisonné (1955). The following year she appeared with Kirk Douglas in La vie passionnée de Vincent van Gogh (1956). She also appeared in Fred Zinnemann's 1959 masterpiece Au risque de se perdre (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.
