Sandra Michaels

Who is Sandra Michaels?

English actress Sandra Michaels was born in 1944. Her first television role was in March 1957, playing Phyllis in the second BBC adaptation of The Railway Children. Later that year she appeared as Pamela Gwendolyn Stuart in The Adventures of Clint and Mac, a British-made serial commissioned by Walt Disney Studios for The Mickey Mouse Club. Also in 1957 she played Caroline, a modern teenager who got up to mischief in the ITV sitcom, The Thompsons.

She appeared in a variety of programmes, ranging from the 1959 adaptation of Great Expectations and Dixon of Dock Green, to The Ronnie Barker Playhouse and Gaslight Theatre.

Stage work varied from plays to pantomimes and light musicals; she appeared in Little Old King Cole with Charlie Drake at the London Palladium in 1961, Puss In Boots at the Coventry Theatre with Sid James and Frankie Howerd in 1962-63, and Mandrake at the Criterion Theatre with Roy Kinnear in 1970.

In the 1980s Michaels appeared in a number of documentaries and short films, including the 1987 BAFTA nominated Mohammed's Daughter, directed by Suri Krishnamma.