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Sharon Maughan
Sharon Patricia Maughan (born 22 June 1950) is a British actress. She became internationally recognised in the 1980s from the Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé instant coffee (Taster's Choice in the United States), alongside actor Anthony Head. Her credits include She's Out of My League, MacGyver, Inspector Morse, Hannay, and Murder, She Wrote. She made it to the semi-final of Celebrity MasterChef in 2011.
Sharon Maughan was born in Liverpool, to a working class family of Irish descent from the province of Connacht in the west of Ireland, and raised in Kirkby, Lancashire, with her four siblings. She got her first taste of acting in plays at the all-girl Catholic Comprehensive School, St Gregory's School in Southdene, Kirkby. At the age of 17, she was awarded a scholarship to study acting at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1971 with an Acting (RADA) Diploma.
Maughan's acting career began playing Ophelia in an Open University tour of Hamlet. In 1973, Maughan was chosen for the role of Rachel Rosing in a Granada Television serialisation of Howard Spring's novel, Shabby Tiger.
In 1973, she joined Alan Bennett at the Lyric Theatre in his original production of Habeas Corpus, playing Felicity Rumpers. She next worked with John Stride in the final series of Yorkshire Television's The Main Chance, playing the Nordic Inge Lindstrom.
In 1977, Maughan joined the cast of Franco Zeffirelli's Filumena, starring Joan Plowright and Colin Blakely in London's West End, where she met her future husband, actor Trevor Eve.
Maughan then went on to star in such series as The Enigma Files, The Flame Trees of Thika, Dombey and Son, and By the Sword Divided. In 1986, as a result of the success of The Flame Trees of Thika in America, Maughan was invited to do an episode of MacGyver. From 1987 to 1998, while running the internationally successful Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé, (Taster's Choice in the United States) alongside actor Anthony Head, she starred in episodes of Inspector Morse, Hannay, and Murder, She Wrote.
Onstage, she played Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday, and Nora in A Doll's House at Chichester Festival Theatre in 1993. She played Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Anna Howard Shaw in Paula Wagner's production of Out of Our Father's House at Hollywood's Fountainhead Theatre.
In 1993, she starred in Cinderella, alongside Kathleen Turner, the same year, worked with Richard Dreyfuss in Another Stakeout.
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Sharon Maughan
Sharon Patricia Maughan (born 22 June 1950) is a British actress. She became internationally recognised in the 1980s from the Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé instant coffee (Taster's Choice in the United States), alongside actor Anthony Head. Her credits include She's Out of My League, MacGyver, Inspector Morse, Hannay, and Murder, She Wrote. She made it to the semi-final of Celebrity MasterChef in 2011.
Sharon Maughan was born in Liverpool, to a working class family of Irish descent from the province of Connacht in the west of Ireland, and raised in Kirkby, Lancashire, with her four siblings. She got her first taste of acting in plays at the all-girl Catholic Comprehensive School, St Gregory's School in Southdene, Kirkby. At the age of 17, she was awarded a scholarship to study acting at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1971 with an Acting (RADA) Diploma.
Maughan's acting career began playing Ophelia in an Open University tour of Hamlet. In 1973, Maughan was chosen for the role of Rachel Rosing in a Granada Television serialisation of Howard Spring's novel, Shabby Tiger.
In 1973, she joined Alan Bennett at the Lyric Theatre in his original production of Habeas Corpus, playing Felicity Rumpers. She next worked with John Stride in the final series of Yorkshire Television's The Main Chance, playing the Nordic Inge Lindstrom.
In 1977, Maughan joined the cast of Franco Zeffirelli's Filumena, starring Joan Plowright and Colin Blakely in London's West End, where she met her future husband, actor Trevor Eve.
Maughan then went on to star in such series as The Enigma Files, The Flame Trees of Thika, Dombey and Son, and By the Sword Divided. In 1986, as a result of the success of The Flame Trees of Thika in America, Maughan was invited to do an episode of MacGyver. From 1987 to 1998, while running the internationally successful Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé, (Taster's Choice in the United States) alongside actor Anthony Head, she starred in episodes of Inspector Morse, Hannay, and Murder, She Wrote.
Onstage, she played Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday, and Nora in A Doll's House at Chichester Festival Theatre in 1993. She played Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Anna Howard Shaw in Paula Wagner's production of Out of Our Father's House at Hollywood's Fountainhead Theatre.
In 1993, she starred in Cinderella, alongside Kathleen Turner, the same year, worked with Richard Dreyfuss in Another Stakeout.