Sheila Hancock

**Dame Sheila Cameron Hancock** (an haife ta a ranar 22 ga watan Fabrairun shekara ta 1933) 'yar wasan kwaikwayo ce ta Ingila, mawaƙa, kuma marubuciya. Ta yi wasan kwaikwayo a kan mataki a cikin wasan kwaikwayo da kiɗa a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Landan, kuma an san ta da rawar da ta taka a fina-finai da talabijin. 

Hancock ta farko Broadway a cikin Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1966) ya ba ta Kyautar Tony Award don Mafi kyawun Actress a cikin Play. Ta lashe lambar yabo ta Laurence Olivier don Mafi kyawun Aiki a Matsayin Tallafawa a cikin Musical don rawar da ta taka a *Cabaret* (2007), kuma an zabi ta a Laurence Olivie Awards sau biyar don aikinta a *Annie* (1978), *Sweeney Todd* (1980), The Winter's Tale (1982), *Prin* (1989), da Sister Act (2010).

A cikin fina-finai da talabijin, Hancock ya ba da kyauta sun haɗa da Carry On Cleo (1964), The *Wildcats na St Trinian*'s (1980), *Buster* (1988), Three Men and a Little Lady (1990), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), da *Edie* (2017). An zabi ta sau biyu don Kyautar Talabijin ta Kwalejin Burtaniya don Mafi kyawun 'yar wasan kwaikwayo, don The Russian Bride (2001) da Bedtime (2002).

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haifi Sheila Cameron Hancock  a ranar 22 ga Fabrairu 1933 a Blackgang a kan Isle of Wight, 'yar Enrico Cameron Hancock da Ivy Louise (née Woodward)  'Yar'uwarta Billie ta girme ta da shekaru bakwai. Bayan Enrico da Ivy sun bar masana'antar baƙi a 1938, Hancocks sun koma wani gida mai banƙyama a Latham Road, Bexleyheath, wanda Hancock ya yi la'akari da rashin jin daɗi idan aka kwatanta da "rashin ƙarfi da faɗuwa" na King's Cross. Daga baya ta tuna cewa akwai ma'anar cewa "babu shakka mun tashi a duniya... sun zama ƙananan matsakaitan".

Hancock ta yi karatu a St Etheldreda's Convent a Ely Place, Holborn, sannan a Upton Road Junior School da Upland Junior School .  Bayan kwashewar lokacin yaƙi zuwa Wallingford, Oxfordshire (a wannan lokacin a Berkshire), da kuma zuwa Crewkerne, Somerset, Hancock ya halarci Dartford County Grammar School . 

Hancock ta ci gaba da karatun wasan kwaikwayo a Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), ta kammala karatu a 1952 tare da Acting (RADA Diploma). 

## Gidan wasan kwaikwayo
Hancock ta yi aiki a cikin repertory a cikin shekarun 1950 kuma ta fara gabatar da ita a West End a 1958, ta maye gurbin Joan Sims a cikin wasan Breath of Spring . Daga nan sai ta bayyana a cikin Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop production of Make Me An Offer a shekarar 1959, kuma sauran bayyanarta na farko na West End sun hada da Peter Cook's revue One Over the Eight tare da Kenneth Williams a shekarar 1961, kuma ta fito a Rattle of a Simple Man a shekarar 1962. Ta tuna cewa a cikin One over the Eight Irving Davies ta yi mata gargaɗi a matsayin kyaftin din rawa, "Ido, hakora, da tits, darlings - da haskakawa, haskakawa!" 

A shekara ta 1965, Hancock ta fara bugawa Broadway a cikin Entertaining Mr Sloane . A shekara ta 1978, ta buga Miss Hannigan a cikin asalin London na wasan kwaikwayo na *Annie* a Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Victoria Palace kuma shekaru biyu bayan haka, ta buga Mrs Lovett a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na asali na London na *Sweeney Todd* a gidan wasan kwaikwayon Royal, Drury Lane; an bayyana hotonta a matsayin "ya kama labarin soyayya cikakke".

Hancock ya bayyana a cikin The Winter's Tale, *Titus Andronicus* da A Delicate Balance don Kamfanin Royal Shakespeare (RSC). A Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na kasa ta bayyana a cikin Neil Bartlett's In Extremis / De Profundis,  The Cherry Orchard da The *Duchess na Malfi* . Ita ce kuma mace ta farko da ta zama darakta na kamfanin yawon shakatawa na RSC, ta ba da umarnin A Midsummer Night's Dream kuma ita ce mace ta farko ta ba da umurni a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Olivier a gidan wasan kwaikwayon na kasa tare da The Critic . Ta kuma kasance mataimakiyar darektan zane-zane na Kamfanin gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Cambridge . 

Hancock ta ɗauki rawar Rose a cikin West Yorkshire Playhouse na 1993 na Gypsy; wani mai bita ya yi sharhi cewa "ta tabbata tana da ma'auni na Rose... 'Dukkanin roses masu zuwa' ya kawo alamar farko ta tausayi na gaskiya a cikin wasan kwaikwayon", yayin da a cikin yanayin karshe "canjin daji tsakanin gaskatawa da shakku ya ƙare a cikin hawaye-sanin kai".[1]

A shekara ta 2006, Hancock ya taka rawar Fräulein Schneider a farfadowar West End na *Cabaret* na kiɗa a Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Lyric . Ta lashe lambar yabo ta Laurence Olivier, da kuma lambar yabo ta Clarence Derwent, don Mafi kyawun Ayyuka a Matsayin Tallafawa a cikin Musical. A shekara ta 2009, ta shafe sama da shekara guda tana wasa da Uwar Mai Girma a cikin Sister Act the Musical a London Palladium wanda aka zaba ta don kyautar Olivier . 

A cikin 2013, Hancock ta fito tare da Lee Evans  da Keeley Hawes a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na *Barking a Essex* a Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Wyndham. 

A cikin 2016, Hancock ta fito tare da Jenna Russell a farkon wasan kwaikwayo na Burtaniya na Grey Gardens a Southwark Playhouse .  A cikin 2018, ta buga Maude a cikin *Harold da Maude* a Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Charing Cross, London. A cikin 2019, Hancock ta fito a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na This Is My Family a Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Minerva, Chichester . 

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