Sheila R. McGibbon (16 June 1921, in Belfast, Northern Ireland â€" 4
October 1997) was an Irish stage, radio and television actress. She
was born to a modest Catholic family in 1921, and died in 1997, the
same year as her husband, John Graham, a Protestant IRA volunteer and
later pro-golfer. They had seven children whom they raised in the
Belfast area.Throughout her distinguished career, she starred in
numerous plays in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and in the Lyric Theatre,
Belfast. According to Irish Playography documents, she starred in over
30 plays. She also starred in numerous radio, television, and movie
roles. Some of the plays and radio shows McGibbon starred in were
later broadcast on television which she also starred in. Her first
radio broadcast was on 26 February 1955; her last was on 29 June 1995.
In 1988 McGibbon appeared in the television dramatised documentary,
God's Frontiersmen as "Elizabeth Brownlee", and was offered a role for
a film but declined.Sheila McGibbon remains one of the more noted
Irish actresses of her time. Her picture still remains framed in the
lobby of Ireland's national theatre, the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Her
picture also remains in the memorial of the Lyric Theatre, Dublin.
Sheila McGibbon Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter
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