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Shirley Eaton (born 12 January 1937) is an English actress.
Eaton appeared regularly in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and achieved notability for her performance as Bond Girl Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger. Preferring to devote herself to bringing up a family, Eaton retired from acting in 1969.
Eaton was born on 12 January 1937 in Edgware, Middlesex, and brought up in the suburb of Harrow Weald. She attended Roe Green Junior School on Prince's Avenue. Although close to Kingsbury Secondary Modern School, Eaton won a place at the Aida Foster School, a... MORE
Shirley Eaton (born 12 January 1937) is an English actress.
Eaton appeared regularly in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and achieved notability for her performance as Bond Girl Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger. Preferring to devote herself to bringing up a family, Eaton retired from acting in 1969.
Eaton was born on 12 January 1937 in Edgware, Middlesex, and brought up in the suburb of Harrow Weald. She attended Roe Green Junior School on Prince's Avenue. Although close to Kingsbury Secondary Modern School, Eaton won a place at the Aida Foster School, a specialist drama school, and remained there until she was sixteen. Her stage debut was in Benjamin Britten's Let's Make an Opera! and her West End debut was in 1954 in Going to Town.
Throughout her career, she appeared with many of the top British male comedy stars from the period including Jimmy Edwards, Max Bygraves, Bob Monkhouse and Arthur Askey. Her female co-stars included Peggy Mount, Thora Hird and Dora Bryan among others. Her early roles include Three Men In A Boat (1956) and Date with Disaster (1957), in which she co-starred with Tom Drake. She also worked with the Crazy Gang in Life Is a LESS
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