Sheila White (born October 18, 1950 in London) is an actress. She sprang to prominence with a minor role in Oliver! (1968), but later went on to play comedy roles in soft pornography movies like Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975). However, she is surely best known for her memorable performance as the infamous Messalina in the TV adaptation, I, Claudius (1976). She also played Carol Hanley, biological mother of Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean) in EastEnders (1990).
Sheila White was a child actress and appeared as one of the Von Trapp Children (Louisa) in the London production of The Sound of Music with Mary Martin and also took the star role in the musical The Biograph Girl.
Sheila also appeared on the BBC television programme, The Good Old Days, singing the Noel Gay song, "Only a Glass of Champagne", and took the curtain call with Arthur Askey and Frankie Vaughan.
Sheila White (born ca. 1954) is a Canadian political activist and a member of the New Democratic Party who has run for office four times in Toronto.
White worked as a senior aide to then-North York mayor Mel Lastman from 1985 to 1998, in charge of communications, media and community programs.
She was employed for five years as special advisor to Howard Hampton and the Ontario New Democratic Party and worked as media and communications director for the party's 2003 election campaign. She is currently executive assistant to Member of Provincial Parliament for Hamilton East, Andrea Horwath. Sheila White has appeared as a commentator on radio and television political panels.
She is a patron for the "Go For It" Theatre in Teddington, Middlesex, England.
