Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Flett, Sharry
Ontario -based actor, she has been a regular at the Shaw Festival since 1988. She studied music at McGill and theatre at Webber-Douglas Academy (London, England) before working at the Charlottetown Festival .
She played Kate to Len Cariou 's Petruchio in Stratford 's 1981 production of Taming of the Shrew, and went on to appear there for three seasons in She Stoops to Conquer, The Misanthrope, The Tempest and Translations. She has also acted at Canadian Stage and Theatre Aquarius among others.
With Shaw she has performed in War and Peace, Dangerous Corner, Major Barbara, Joy, Hobson's Choice, The Seagull, The Secret Life, Ladies in Retirement, Hedda Gabler and twice in Getting Married (1989 and 1999) among others. Also, in 1999, Ms. Flett played Mrs. Danvers in the stage adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. More recently, 2000, she appeared in the company's production of A Woman of No Importance and Six Characters in Search of an Author
She has also appeared frequently in film and on television.
She is married to actor Anthony Bekenn and they have one daughter, Michaela.
(Additional information provided by Daniel Kessler and Christopher Hoile)
Last updated 2003-01-28
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