Rosalind Shanks

Rosalind Shanks is a British actress and broadcaster. In 1964, she joined the BBC's Radio Drama Company by winning the Carleton Hobbs Bursary. Shanks starred as Margaret Hale the heroin in North and South, in 1975, opposite Patrick Stewart as John Thornton. In the same year, she appeared as Joanna Childe in "The Girls of Slender Means" by Muriel Spark, a land mark series with a leading female cast by pioneering female director Moira Armstrong. In the theatre Rosalind took leading roles including in repertory, at the National Theatre (during Lord Olivier's time in charge), in a world tour of "Shakespeare's People" with Sir Michael Redgrave, and in the West End with Judi Dench and Sian Phillips directed by Sir John Gielgud.