Sheila Mary Burrell (9 May 1922 – 19 July 2011) was a British actress. A cousin of Laurence Olivier, she was born in Blackheath, London, the daughter of a salesman. She attended St John's, Bexhill-on-Sea and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Her first marriage to actor Laurence Payne was dissolved and she then married David Sim, a portrait and theatre photographer. She is primarily remembered in the United States for her performance as Lady Rochford in three episodes of the television series Six Wives of Henry VIII. Theatre career Burrell made her first appearance on the stage in 1942, playing Patsy in The Patsy, entertaining the troops, and made her first appearance in London at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 20 April 1944, as Rose in The Rest Is Silence. Subsequent theatre credits include: Chanticleer, June 1944, Sonja in Happily Ever After? Liverpool, 1944, Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew Arts, October 1944, Judy in The Bread-Winner Arts, February 1944, Rosetta in Leonce and Lena Chanticleer, March 1945, Maia Rubeck in When We Dead Awaken Arts, April 1945, Celestine in An Italian Straw Hat Arts, October 1947, Mrs Rosenberg in Smith Dundee, 1947, Bathsheba in Monathan Croydon and Embassy, during 1948, Louka in Arms and the Man, Gilda in Design for Living and Judy in The Shining Hour Dublin Gate Theatre, 1948, Abdication, The Vigil and The Mountains Look Different Lyric Hammersmith, March and Ambassadors' April 1949, Barbara Allen in Dark of the Moon Embassy, July 1949, Elizabeth in Fit for Heroes Touring, February 1950, as Anne Boleyn in The White Falcon Duchess, April 1950, Clara in The Man With the Umbrella Watergate, November 1950, Margot in The Typewriter Q Theatre, February 1951, Letticia in The Watchman New Boltons, April 1951, She in Happy and Glorious Bristol Old Vic Company, 1951–52 season, Juliette in The Traveller Without Luggage, Curley's wife in Of Mice and Men, Perpetua in Venus Observed and Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost Vaudeville, May 1952, Linda Cooper in Sweet Madness Embassy, March 1953, Rosina in The Herald Angels Strand (for Repertory Players), May 1954, Elizabeth Glossop in Lola Q Theatre, September 1954, Aimée in Finishing School Bristol Old Vic, February 1956, Goneril in King Lear Arts, April 1959, Sedra in Dark Halo Connaught (Worthing), October 1960, Joanne in The Warm Peninsula Theatre Royal, Bristol, May 1963, Honor Klein in A Severed Head,