Shirley Anne Field (born 27 June 1938) is an English actress who has performed on stage, film and television since 1955.

Biography

She married the aristocratic RAF pilot and racing driver Charles Crichton-Stuart (1939-2001) on 7 July 1967; and they had one daughter, Nicola Crichton-Stuart, who was born the same year. The marriage ended in divorce during the late 1970s. She wrote her autobiography A Time for Love (1991).

On 14 November 1993, Field appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, talking to Sue Lawley about her upbringing in different children's homes in Northern England and her success as an actress in the 1960s. She also reminisced about her friendship with John F. Kennedy and an ill-fated date with Frank Sinatra. Her record choices included Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major and pieces by Rachmaninov, Elvis Presley, and the Carpenters.

In the September 2009 issue of Cinema Retro, there is a long interview with Field, where she candidly talks about her childhood and the making of Peeping Tom, The Entertainer, Beat Girl and The War Lover.