Lesley Fitz-Simons

{{short description|Scottish actress (1961-2013)}}

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| name = Lesley Fitz-Simons

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1961|09|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Stirlingshire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|01|26|1961|09|23|df=y}}

| death_place = Glasgow

| nationality = British

| other_names = Lesley Fitzsimmons{{efn|She was credited as Fitzsimmons for her voice work in the American-British animated series Hurricanes.}}

| occupation = Actress

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| notable_works = Take the High Road

|children=1

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Lesley Fitz-Simons (23 September 1961 – 26 January 2013){{Cite web|author=Brian Beacom|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/13090052.lesley-fitz-simons/|title=Lesley Fitz-Simons|website=HeraldScotland|date=29 January 2013 |access-date=22 May 2021|archive-date=22 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522094345/https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/13090052.lesley-fitz-simons/|url-status=live}} was a Scottish actress best known for playing the role of Sheila Ramsay in STV's soap opera Take the High Road.

Fitz-Simons was born in Glasgow and brought up in Milton of Campsie, then Stirlingshire,{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lesley-fitz-simons-scottish-actress-known-her-role-take-high-road-8569200.html|title=Lesley Fitz-Simons: Scottish actress known for her role in Take the High Road|date=11 April 2013|website=The Independent|access-date=22 May 2021|archive-date=3 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503030836/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lesley-fitz-simons-scottish-actress-known-her-role-take-high-road-8569200.html|url-status=live}} She had an early role as a teenager in the television series The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1978. At the age of 21, she joined the cast of Take the High Road and played the role of Sheila Ramsay until the programme was cancelled in 2003.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009 and died in hospital in Glasgow on 26 January 2013, aged 51.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/lesley-fitz-simons-high-roads-sheila-dies-aged-51-1592436|title=Lesley Fitz-Simons, High Road's Sheila, dies aged 51|website=scotsman.com|access-date=22 May 2021|archive-date=22 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522094333/https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/lesley-fitz-simons-high-roads-sheila-dies-aged-51-1592436|url-status=live}} She had one daughter, Marnie.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/brave-daughter-high-road-star-1873283|title=Brave daughter of High Road star Lesley Fitz-Simons pays tribute to her beloved mum|first=Lesley|last=Roberts|date=7 May 2013|website=Daily Record|access-date=29 July 2013|archive-date=28 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928235901/http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/brave-daughter-high-road-star-1873283|url-status=live}}