The Onedin Line star Anne Stallybrass has passed away aged 82 following her stellar TV career, which launched in the 1970s.
The actress, who was afraid of the sea, enjoyed fame playing Jane Seymour in The Six Wives Of Henry VIII and later in The Onedin Line as the long-suffering wife of shipping line founder James Onedin - in what was later life imitating art.
Anne, who was married to actor Roger Rowland in 1963 before later divorcing, tied the knot with her co-star Peter Gilmore in 1979 after 10 years as a couple and they lived in a cottage in Dartmouth. He passed away in 2013.
The star - full name Jacqueline Anne Stallybrass - was born on 4 December 1938 and died 3 July and is survived by nephew, Jeremy, and two nieces, Caroline and Nicola.
The happy couple: The Onedin Line star Anne Stallybrass has passed away aged 82 following her stellar TV career through the 1970s (Anne pictured with on and off-screen husband Peter Gilmour in The Onedin Line in 1971)
Anne was born in Rochford, Essex to Bank of England clerk Edward Stallybrass and his wife Annie, neé Peacock. She went to a local convent school, the same attended by Helen Mirren and Gemma Graven.
She got her first acting experience with the Arthur Brough Players, at Folkestone's Leas Pavilion, where she debuted in Rookery Nook in 1960, in Westcliff.
Her first notable TV role was playing Jane Seymour in 1970's The Six Wives Of Henry VIII, which went on to become a hit all over the world.
Speaking in 1989, she said of the part: 'Not one of us thought we were involved in a success while we were making it.'
The happy couple: Anne tied the knot with her co-star Peter Gilmore in 1979 after 10 years as a couple and they lived in a cottage in Dartmouth. He passed away in 2013 (Peter and Anne in 1993)
On the ongoing acclaim of the show being aired around the world at the time, she said: 'I had a cheque from Saudi Arabia the other day and that was for a piece of work I originally did nineteen years ago, I suppose. Amazing.'
It was 18 months after playing Jane that she went on to scoop her most renowned in BBC's The Onedin Line, which aired in 70 countries.
She starred as Anne, wife of the shipping line founder James Onedin, played by her later-husband Peter, who was later described by one critic as 'a working-class Horatio Hornblower'.
Starring role: The actress enjoyed huge fame playing Jane Seymour in The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (pictured) and later in The Onedin Line as the long-suffering wife of shipping line founder James Onedin - in what was later life imitating art
In the show, James invests his £25 inheritance from his chandlery owner father, in the Charlotte Rhodes, a square-rigged sailing ship, to start his own business and go into competition with his former shipping employer.
He is sold the ship by James Hayter's character Captain Webster for a slashed price so long as he married his disapproving daughter Anne - played by Anne.
Her decision to star on the show was somewhat shocking due to her fear of the sea.
She revealed: 'I had a dread of falling overboard. The costumes were so weighty that I was convinced I would drown, but everyone assured me that with all those petticoats, I'd have floated...
'At least they kept me warm, but I took off the whalebone corset because it was so terribly uncomfortable when I walked up and down the deck. The clothes must have been hell for women in those
