- Australian actress. Died of cancer in Melbourne, Australia at age 75, 9 days after winning Australian Film Institute's Best Actress award for A Woman's Tale (1991), a film where she played a woman dying of cancer.
- Started acting around 1932, living in England between 1934 and 1948, before returning to Australia where she continued to perform until her death.
- Mother of Susan, Peter Oyston and Phillip Oyston. Her granddaughter by Peter is the opera soprano Dominique Oyston. Another grandchild is Stephen Oyston.
- Best known for her role of Lizzie Birdsworth in Prisoner.
- Suffered a knee injury during the filming of Mad Max, but refused to sit out. She took off her own cast and performed her role injured throughout.
- Ranked 3rd out of 25 for Prisoner (1979) appearances, Shelia appeared in 404 episodes.
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