Millicent Martin

Millicent was aged 12 when she enrolled in the Italia Conti Stage School, where fellow pupils included Anthony Newley and Johnny Briggs. One of the first shows she was in was Blue For a Boy. A while later she spent three years on Broadway in The Boy Friend, in which she played every female part during the run. She then played the lead in the show during its London West End run. She joined the television show That Was The Week That Was in 1963 and was in it for about one-and-a-half years, which led to her own show Mainly Millicent. In 1964 she was in the film Nothing But The Best. Later she received two Tony Award nominations for work on Broadway: Side by Side by Sondheim (1977) and King of Hearts (1978). She married singer Ronnie Carroll in 1959; they divorced in 1965. She then married actor Norman Eshley in 1969, divorcing in 1973. Her third marriage was to Marc Alexander in 1978.