Shani Wallis Net Worth is
$950,000

Mini Biography

A popular music name noted on film for just one delightfully feisty Cockney lass, Shani Wallis was created in 1933 in Tottenham (North London), Britain, and initially studied on the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on the scholarship or grant. On stage from age group 4 and executing in repertory as an early on teenager, she became among the brighter youthful performing voices of her day time. She produced her Western End musical debut at age group 18 with “Contact Me Madam” in the Coliseum in 1952, and instantly founded herself in the part of Princess Maria, the best ingénue. Following additional starring tasks in the mediocre musicals “Happy like a Ruler” and “Want You Were Right here,” she obtained once again in “Amazing City” (1955) playing a comic soubrette, so that as another spirited ingénue in “Finian’s Rainbow” (1958). Among were several musical revue displays. In 1960 she changed Tony-winner Elizabeth Seal in the name part of “Irma La Douce” at London’s Lyric Theater. After the display closed, few gives seemed to arrive her way therefore she made a decision to try her good fortune in America. She went about rebuilding her name for the cabaret, concert and golf club circuits, and added more musical tasks such as for example “South Pacific,” “The Ruler and I” and “Bells Are Calling” to her credits. She finally managed to get to Broadway in 1966, co-starring using the famous Tessie O’Shea in “A PERIOD For Performing,” a musical edition of “How Green Was My Valley.” Supported by three solid numbers, she got an opportunity to sparkle in the Maureen O’Hara colleen part, but the display shut after a unsatisfactory operate of 41 shows. Several inconsequential film roles had arrive her way earlier in Britain, like the Extra Day time (1956) and Ramsbottom Trips Again (1956), not forgetting a singing little bit in Charles Chaplin’s A Ruler in NY (1957). Apart from assorted variety display looks and a televised overall performance assisting Carol Burnett in Once Upon a Mattress (1964), she discovered just a modicum of on-camera function. Even more astounding when she nabbed the part of an eternity as the ill-fated Nancy in the Oscar-winning picture Oliver! (1968). Effectively replacing the apparently irreplaceable Georgia Dark brown, Shani produced a long lasting marquee name for herself while providing her all in the rousing “Oom-pah Pah” quantity and placing her personal indelible stamp around the show-stopping “SO LONG AS He Requirements Me,” right now considered her personal song. Having by no means played the component before, she continued to execute Nancy around the theater stage aswell. Shani was seen only sporadically in movies following this discovery, like the horror opus Terror in the Polish Museum (1973), for the live stage was still her initial love. Over time she’s gamely performed in several musical staples, including “42nd Road” and “Follies,” and toured with Liberace for five years through the 1980s. Recently she is a normal within the day-time cleaning soap The Young as well as the Restless (1973) being a nanny type. Longer wedded to agent and previous actor Bernard Wealthy, their little girl Rebecca Rich is certainly a costume developer.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Shani Wallis
Profession	Actor, Singer
Education	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Spouse	Bernie Rich
Children	Rebecca Rich
Parents	James John Wallis, Ethel Caroline Wallis
Siblings	Leon Roy
Nominations	NME Award for British Female Singer
Movies	The Pebble and the Penguin, The Great Mouse Detective, Terror in the Wax Museum, Oliver!, A King in New York, Ramsbottom Rides Again