Stephanie Beacham

Beacham, one of four siblings, was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England,{{cite news|url=http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/overseas/article1272125.ece|archive-url=https://archive.today/20100530063335/http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/overseas/article1272125.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 May 2010|title=Moroccan dynasty|work=The Times|date=28 January 2007|access-date=15 July 2009|location=London|first=Richard|last=Barber}} the daughter of Joan (née Wilkins), a housewife, and Alec, who was an insurance executive and later became the managing director of the Grosvenor estate.{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/34/Stephanie-Beacham.html|title=Stephanie Beacham Film Reference biography}} Beacham attended the Queen Elizabeth's Girls' Grammar School in Barnet. Aged 13, she hitch-hiked "all over Europe" with a group of friends.{{cite web|url=http://simply-stephanie.0catch.com/biography1.html|title=Stephanie Beacham's Story: Part 1|publisher=Hello Magazine|date=15 April 1989|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030326232209/http://simply-stephanie.0catch.com/biography1.html |archive-date=26 March 2003 }}

Initially aspiring to become a ballerina, Beacham's dreams were cut short when her instructors told her that she would be unable to continue due to her partial deafness. Leaving school aged 17 in 1964, Beacham travelled to Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris, France, to study mime with Étienne Decroux with the goal of teaching dance movement to deaf children. While in Paris, Beacham got a job as an au-pair girl to help finance her mime school fees. After returning to the UK, Beacham visited a boyfriend who was acting at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. This sparked her interest in theatre and she became the wardrobe assistant before playing juvenile leads with the theatre. Beacham then attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.{{cite web|url=http://stephaniebeacham.net/biography.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426021222/http://www.stephaniebeacham.net/biography.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-04-26|title=Stephanie Beacham – Official Website (Bio)}}

Beacham began a career in modelling before breaking into television. Her first screen role was in the BBC series The Queen's Traitor in 1967, in which she played Mary, Queen of Scots. During an interview, thinking Barnet sounded uninteresting, she told a reporter from the Northern Echo she was born in Casablanca, where her favourite Bogart/Bergman film was set. After many further guest appearances in television series such as The Saint with Roger Moore, Callan, and UFO, Beacham's first film roles were in The Games directed by Michael Winner, and Tam Lin directed by Roddy McDowall, both released in 1970. She would work with Winner again in 1971's The Nightcomers, in which she starred opposite Marlon Brando. Beacham appeared nude in one scene, during the filming of which Brando wore Y-fronts and Wellington boots under the bed clothes to ensure Winner did not film anything lower than was necessary.The One Show, BBC One – 15 July 2009 The Nightcomers would prove to be Beacham's breakout role.

Following the success of The Nightcomers, Beacham was promoting the film in New York City when she was approached by Joseph E. Levine who had bought the rights to the film. Levine attempted to pressure Beacham to pose nude for Playboy, saying that if she did, then he would guarantee her an Oscar nomination for her role in the film. Beacham refused saying that she only appeared nude in The Nightcomers as she "was in character"; this infuriated Levine and he blacklisted her from Hollywood.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/stephanie-beacham-i-had-to-give-up-toy-boys-8092717.html|title=Stephanie Beacham: 'I had to give up toy boys'|last=Gilbert|first=Gerard|work=The Independent|date=31 August 2012}} Beacham later revealed that she was approached by Sam Peckinpah for the main role in Straw Dogs (1971); Peckinpah told Beacham "You must have done something really bad because I'm a son of a bitch who can make anyone do anything and they won't let me use you" – the role subsequently went to Susan George.{{cite web|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/woman/life/stephanie-beacham-i-had-to-give-up-my-toyboys-28791169.html|title=Stephanie Beacham: I had to give up my toyboys|publisher=Belfast Telegraph|date=11 September 2012}}

Despite this, Beacham continued to appear in film, television and on stage in the UK. Horror would be a genre that Beacham appeared in often during this period, and she was subsequently cast as Jessica Van Helsing in Hammer's Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) alongside Peter Cushing. Her next role was as a repertory player with the Nottingham Playhouse, where she played several lead and feature roles, including the role of Nora Helmer in the Henrik Ibsen play A Doll's House. In 1973, she played Georgina Layton in Thames Television's daytime drama Marked Personal (1973–1974). The same year, she made a British-Italian film, Super Bitch (1973), which was originally released in the US as Mafia Junction and in the UK as Blue Movie Blackmail. Beacham also continued to work in horror films, including And Now the Screaming Starts (1973), House of Mortal Sin (1975), Schizo (1976) and Inseminoid (1981) – a film she admits taking for the fee.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jun/18/tvandradio.g2|title=Living in the pink|work=The Guardian|date=18 June 2003|access-date=15 July 2009|location=London|first=Gareth|last=McLean}}

From 1981 to 1982, Beacham featured as a member of the ensemble cast of the BBC series Tenko, about a group of women prisoners of war held captive by the Japanese after their invasion of Singapore in 1942. Following this, she continued working in theatre and television before landing the lead role in the 13-part ITV drama series Connie (1985). Her roles in Tenko and Connie helped to springboard her into one of her most well-remembered roles, that of the devious matriarch Sable Colby on the television series The Colbys (1985–1987). The Colbys was a spin-off of the opulent prime-time soap Dynasty which had been the highest rating programme in the USA that year. Beacham was cast opposite Charlton Heston as the tent-pole couple of the new show. The Colbys never experienced the success of its parent show and was cancelled after two seasons, though in 1988, Beacham was invited to reprise the role of Sable for the final season of Dynasty, playing opposite Joan Collins in a season-long "battle of the bitches" scenario. Beacham posed for Playboy in 1987.

Around this time, Beacham appeared in the comedy film Troop Beverly Hills with Shelley Long, and then landed the lead role in the children's fantasy film The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, playing an evil governess. She was then cast in the US sitcom Sister Kate, taking the lead role as a nun taking care of children in an orphanage. The series lasted for one season and was cancelled in 1990, though she earned a Golden Globe nomination for the role. She then returned to Britain to play Mrs. Peacock in an ITV game show version of the board game Cluedo (1990). In 1990, Beacham appeared in the television miniseries Lucky Chances, based on the books written by Jackie Collins. Reuniting with Dynasty producer Aaron Spelling, Beacham also had a recurring guest role in the popular teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210, playing Iris McKay, the estranged mother of Luke Perry's character Dylan. In total, Beacham appeared in six different television series produced by Spelling, including Dynasty and its spin-off, The Colbys,{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressreader.com/usa/soap-opera-digest/20181019/282548724228324|title=The Colbys|via=PressReader.com|work=Soap Opera Digest|date=October 19, 2019|access-date=November 19, 2019}} The Love Boat, Beverly Hills, 90210, Burke's Law, and Charmed.

In 1992, Beacham starred opposite Christopher Plummer in the film Secrets, and followed this with a role in the television miniseries To Be the Best with Anthony Hopkins. In 1993, Beacham played Countess Regina Bartholomew in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Ship in a Bottle". Later in 1993, she signed on to play Dr. Kristin Westphalen in the NBC science fiction series seaQuest DSV, produced by Steven Spielberg. Her character was the chief oceanographer and medical doctor for the submarine seaQuest, however Beacham left the programme after its first season. Throughout the 1990s, she continued to make guest appearances on television programmes, working in both the UK and the US. Beacham was a judge on both Miss Universe 1994 and Miss World 2000. In 1995, Beacham starred in the play The Father alongside Edward Fox and in 1996, she starred in the BBC drama No Bananas which was set during World War II, and later appeared in the music video for Simply Red's single "Never Never Love" alongside Rula Lenska and Billie Whitelaw. For much of the remainder of the 1990s, Beacham appeared in roles in theatre; she played Mrs. Cheveley in a production of An Ideal Husband in Broadway in the US from 1996 to 1997 before embarking on a theatre tour of Australia in the same play and role in 1998.{{cite web|url=https://playbill.com/article/an-ideal-husband-travels-to-melbourne-feb-6-com-73107|title=An Ideal Husband Travels to Melbourne, Feb 6|last=Kemp|first=Peter|publisher=Playbill|date=28 January 1998}}

In 2002, Beacham played Elizabeth I in the play Elizabeth Rex at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.{{cite web|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Culture%3A+Not+even+her+best+friends+would+recognise+this+was+Stephanie...-a085229837|title=She's made her name playing tough women, but Stephanie Beacham is taking on the toughest yet|last=Grimley|first=Terry|publisher=The Birmingham Post|date=30 April 2002}} Later that year she appeared in two American romantic comedy films: Unconditional Love and Would I Lie to You?. In 2003, Beacham returned to the UK to take a role in the ITV prison drama Bad Girls. She played inmate Phyllida "Phyl" Oswyn for four years, partnered with Beverly "Bev" Tull (played by Amanda Barrie) as the "Costa Cons". She remained with the series to the end in 2006. In 2006, she played the Wicked Witch in a production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in Guildford. She appeared there again the following year in a production of Jack and the Beanstalk.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/jackguildf07-rev|title=Stephanie Beacham panto}} She also appeared in the 2006 movie Love and Other Disasters. She returned to stage work and toured the UK in 2007 as a lead in the Noël Coward play Hay Fever. Later that year, she competed in the 2007 series of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing with professional partner Vincent Simone, though she was eliminated early in the competition (the second of fourteen celebrities) on 14 October 2007. In 2008, Beacham filmed scenes for Steven Berkoff's film, then known as Naked in London but later released as Moving Target.

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In November 2008, it was announced that Beacham had joined the cast of ITV's Coronation Street portraying Martha Fraser, a love interest for Ken Barlow (played by William Roache).{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/01/25/stephanie-beacham-exclusive-on-her-journey-from-the-colbys-to-the-coronation-street-cobbles-115875-21070079/|title=Stephanie Beacham exclusive on her journey from The Colbys to the Coronation Street cobbles|publisher=Sunday Mirror|date=25 January 2009|access-date=15 July 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/a136922/stephanie-beacham-joins-corrie.html|title=Stephanie Beacham joins Corrie|work=Digital Spy|date=27 November 2008 |access-date=15 July 2009}} She made her first appearance on 26 January 2009, appearing in twenty-two episodes until her last appearance on 4 May 2009. Later in 2009, Beacham guest starred in an episode of the comedy series Free Agents.

In February 2010, Beacham appeared in the final episode of the BBC series Material Girl. In April 2010, she made a guest appearance in the long-running BBC hospital drama series Casualty.{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/02/03/celebrity-big-brother-star-stephanie-beacham-comes-a-cropper-in-her-guest-role-in-casualty-115875-22014100|title=Celebrity Big Brother star Stephanie Beacham comes a cropper in her guest role in Casualty|author=Tim Oglethorpe|website=Daily Mirror |date=3 February 2010 }} She then starred as Maria Callas in a UK tour of Master Class from 2010 to 2011. In January 2010, Beacham entered Channel 4's seventh and final series of Celebrity Big Brother as a housemate; she was the only female to make it to the final and finished in fifth place on 29 January 2010.

In October 2011, Beacham released her autobiography Many Lives, in which she discusses her life and career. The book includes a foreword written by her Coronation Street co-star William Roache.{{cite book |title= Many Lives, An Autobiography|last= Beacham|first= Stephanie|year=2011 |publisher=Hay House |location=London, UK |isbn=978-1848505957 }} In 2012, Beacham reunited with her Dynasty co-star Joan Collins in a UK television advert for Snickers. She also appeared as store manager Lorraine Chain in Sky1's supermarket-based sitcom Trollied for eight episodes between August 2012 and October 2012.{{cite web|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a400597/stephanie-beacham-hilary-devey-was-inspiration-for-trollied-role/|title=Stephanie Beacham: 'Hilary Devey was inspiration for Trollied role'|last=Jeffery|first=Morgan|publisher=Digital Spy|date=28 August 2012}} The same year, she also appeared in three episodes of Sky Living's Mount Pleasant as Aunty Pam, and in January 2013, Beacham guest starred in an episode of Death in Paradise.{{cite web|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a394105/jamelia-will-guest-star-in-bbc-one-drama-death-in-paradise/|title=Jamelia will guest star in BBC One drama 'Death in Paradise'|last=Fletcher|first=Alex|publisher=Digital Spy|date=19 July 2012}} From 2014 to 2016 she played June Whitfield's daughter Maureen in the BBC sitcom Boomers.{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/boomers/interview/stephanie_beacham/|title=Boomers: Stephanie Beacham interview|publisher=British Comedy Guide|date=11 August 2014}} She also starred in the film Wild Oats (2016) with Shirley MacLaine and Demi Moore.

In October 2016, Beacham starred as Princess Margaret in the play A Princess Undone by Richard Stirling which premiered at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wlp9f|title=BBC Radio 2 - Graham Norton, With guests Stephanie Beacham, plus Marilyn and Boy George|website=BBC}}{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/15/stephanie-beacham-to-play-princess-margaret-on-stage/|title=Stephanie Beacham to play Princess Margaret on stage|newspaper=The Telegraph |date=15 July 2016|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}} In 2017, Beacham starred opposite Miriam Margolyes in the comedy series Bucket. In 2018, Beacham filmed a role in the television pilot Carol & Vinnie, directed by Dan Zeff, however it was not broadcast. In August 2018, Beacham took part in the television series The Real Marigold Hotel in which she and other celebrities including Susan George and Stanley Johnson tour around Udaipur in India exploring the Indian culture.{{cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/01/stanley-johnson-stephanie-beacham-cast-real-marigold-hotel-7785643/|title=From Stanley Johnson to Stephanie Beacham, who is in the cast of The Real Marigold Hotel?|last=Westbrook|first=Caroline|publisher=Metro|date=1 August 2018}} In February 2021, Beacham's agent and novelist Melanie Blake announced plans to plans to launch a new British soap opera, Falcon Bay. She confirmed that Beacham would star in the soap if she secures the rights to the production.{{Cite news|title=New soap could be launched in the UK with all star cast including Stephanie Beacham|url=https://metro.co.uk/2021/02/26/uk-soap-could-be-launched-with-star-cast-including-stephanie-beacham-14153890/|work=Metro|publisher=DMG Media|date=26 February 2021|last=Lindsay|first=Duncan}}

In October 2022, Beacham had a role in the action thriller film Renegades alongside Lee Majors, Danny Trejo and Patsy Kensit.{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/renegades-uk-release-date-exclusive-newsupdate/|title=Brit revenge thriller Renegades gets 2023 release date|publisher=Radio Times|date=12 August 2022}} In November 2022, it was announced that Beacham would reprise the role of Martha Fraser in Coronation Street.{{cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2022-10-20/corrie-star-returns-after-more-than-12-years|title=Stephanie Beacham returns to Coronation Street after more than 12 years|publisher=ITV|date=20 October 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/coronation-street-stephanie-beacham-martha-fraser-ken-barlow-b1041649.html|title=Stephanie Beacham set to break hearts again as she returns to Coronation Street|last=Knibbs|first=Jessica|publisher=Evening Standard|date=22 November 2022}} Her comeback episode was broadcast on 21 November 2022, and she appeared for a six-episode stint until departing.{{cite web|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/coronation-street/a41720666/coronation-street-stephanie-beacham-return/|title=Coronation Street confirms Stephanie Beacham return as Martha Fraser|last=Bacon|first=Jess|publisher=Digital Spy|date=20 October 2022}} In December 2022, Beacham guest-starred in an episode of Whitstable Pearl{{cite web|url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/whitstable/news/tv-icon-to-feature-in-kent-based-crime-drama-277901/|title=Coronation Street star Stephanie Beacham to feature in Whitstable Pearl|author=Brad Harper|publisher=Kent Online|date=28 November 2022}} and played Elizabeth Hurley's mother in the Christmas romantic comedy film Christmas in the Caribbean.{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/coronation-streets-stephanie-beacham-says-28588101|title=Coronation Street's Stephanie Beacham says new 'naggy mum' role is 'not a stranger to me'|author=Emma Pryer|publisher=Daily Mirror|date=25 November 2022}}

In 2023, Beacham starred in three films: Nessie,{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/blockbuster-loch-ness-monster-movie-30315664|title=Blockbuster Loch Ness monster movie was filmed miles away in Argyll|last=Merritt|first=Mike|publisher=Daily Record|date=25 June 2023}} Forever Young{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2023/10/stephanie-beacham-dynasty-diana-quick-movie-forever-young-trailer-vision-rights-distribution-deal-1235569786/|title=Diana Quick & Stephanie Beacham In First Trailer For 'Forever Young', Vision Films Acquires Rights|publisher=Deadline|last=Wiseman|first=Andreas|date=11 October 2023}} and Grey Matter. In August 2023, Beacham appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in conversation with Christopher Biggins discussing her life and career in an event named An Audience with Stephanie Beacham.{{cite web|url=https://theatreweekly.com/sir-cliff-richard-janey-godley-stephanie-beacham-christopher-biggins-gloria-hunniford-to-play-the-fringe-at-prestonfield/|title=Sir Cliff Richard, Janey Godley, Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Biggins, Gloria Hunniford to play The Fringe at Prestonfield|publisher=Theatre Weekly|date=11 May 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://magazine.dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2023/08/23/review-an-audience-with-stephanie-beacham/|title=Review: An Audience with Stephanie Beacham|last=Murden|first=Terry|publisher=Daily Business Magazine|date=23 August 2023}}

In 2009, Beacham was involved in launching the Sense National Deafblind and Rubella Association Fill in the Gaps campaign{{cite web|url=http://www.sense.org.uk/campaigns/older_people/ |title=Fill in the Gaps: supporting older people with hearing and sight loss |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422081704/http://www.sense.org.uk/campaigns/older_people/ |archive-date=22 April 2009 }} which aims to give the elderly the support they need to maintain a good quality of life. She also attended the Parliamentary launch of the campaign in June 2006. Beacham is also a spokesperson for the American Speech–Language–Hearing Association, which supports those with communication disabilities, and is a member of the British Tinnitus Association, as well as being on the Board of Free Arts for Abused Children in Los Angeles which gives abused children access to the arts for therapeutic value.

In 2017, Beacham appeared in a promotional film for Unison, voicing her support for their Pay Up Now campaign, encouraging the British government to give public service workers a pay increase.{{cite web|url=https://www.unison.org.uk/news/press-release/2017/11/former-dynasty-star-highlights-unisons-pay-now-campaign/|title=Former Dynasty star highlights UNISON's Pay Up Now! campaign|publisher=Unison|date=8 November 2017}}

In 2009, Beacham launched her own range of skincare and beauty products, Glow by Stephanie Beacham.{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/500-bottles-of-stephanie-beachams-beauty-394785|title=500 bottles of Stephanie Beacham's beauty treatment to give away!|publisher=Daily Mirror|date=19 May 2009}} The range proved to be a bestseller, selling fifty thousand units within a month of launching.{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/stephanie-beacham-i-may-be-a-granny-but-i-still-feel-394575|title=Stephanie Beacham: I may be a granny but I still feel fabulous|publisher=Daily Mirror|date=18 May 2009}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/coronation-street-star-stephanie-beacham-1018387|title=Coronation Street star Stephanie Beacham on how to look good naturally|last=Kerr|first=Alison|publisher=Daily Record|date=14 April 2009}}

In 1987, synth-pop group Act released an extended version of their song "Snobbery and Decay", entitled "Snobbery & Decay (Extended, For Stephanie Beacham)".

Beacham is partially deaf, having been born with no hearing in her right ear and 80% hearing in her left ear.{{cite web|url=http://hiddenhearingblog.com/2011/11/09/stephanie-beacham-she-was-born-completely-deaf-in-her-right-ear-and-with-only-80-hearing-in-her-left/|title=Stephanie Beacham: She was born completely deaf in her right ear and with only 80% hearing in her left.|work=Hidden Hearing's (Ireland) Blog|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006090153/http://hiddenhearingblog.com/2011/11/09/stephanie-beacham-she-was-born-completely-deaf-in-her-right-ear-and-with-only-80-hearing-in-her-left/|archive-date=6 October 2014|df=dmy-all}} She has said that this was partially caused by her mother having chicken pox while she was pregnant with her.{{cite web|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/%2F+Actress+Stephanie+Beacham+Deafness+can+be+really+lonely%3B+Actress...-a0378073024|title=Actress Stephanie Beacham: Deafness can be really lonely|last=McGrath|first=Nick|publisher=Daily Post|date=12 August 2014}}

She married actor John McEnery in 1973, having met while both performing with the Everyman Theatre. Beacham became pregnant shortly after the wedding but had a bad fall on stage during a rehearsal and suffered a miscarriage when she was three months pregnant. She revealed in an interview her stillborn son was cremated.{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/stephanie-beacham-trembles-loose-women-12432045|title=Stephanie Beacham 'trembles' on Loose Women as she reveals nurse refused to let her see her miscarried baby because he was 'thrown into the incinerator'|last=Hill|first=Rose|publisher=The Daily Mirror|date=26 April 2018}} Beacham and McEnery divorced in 1979. They have two daughters.

She dated Marlon Brando after starring with him in The Nightcomers (1971){{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/stephanie-beecham-dating-marlon-brando-26212311|title=Stephanie Beecham on dating Marlon Brando, Dynasty and why she 'can't bothered' to wed|last=Matheson|first=Anna|publisher=Daily Mirror|date=13 February 2022}} and later had relationships with Eric Clapton{{cite web|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/DON%27T+BECOME+A+SEX+JUNKIE!%3B+TV+glamour+queen+Stephanie+Beacham+hands...-a061166745|title=DON'T BECOME A SEX JUNKIE!; TV glamour queen Stephanie Beacham hands out a warning to her daughters...; 'Women can get hooked on sleeping around'.|last=Parker|first=David|publisher=The People|date=23 June 1996}} and Imran Khan in the 1980s, then a cricketer, later a politician who became Prime Minister of Pakistan.{{cite web |title=A woman of substance |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/a-woman-of-substance-1-1395334 |website=The Scotsman |date=27 June 2004}}{{cite web |title=Bowling maidens over: The love life of cricket superstar Imran Khan |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/special-report/story/19950615-bowling-maidens-over-the-love-life-of-cricket-superstar-imran-khan-807422-1995-06-15 |website=India Today |publisher=Zahid Hussain |date=15 June 1995}} Beacham is in a relationship with Bernie Greenwood; the couple became engaged in 2013.{{cite web|url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/stephanie-beacham-didnt-meet-one-070000569.html|title=Stephanie Beacham didn't meet 'The One' until she was 60|publisher=Bang Showbiz|date=27 November 2022}}

Beacham splits her time between homes in London, Malibu, Morocco and Spain.{{cite web|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/woman/life/stephanie-beacham-i-had-to-give-up-my-toyboys-28791169.html|title=Stephanie Beacham: I had to give up my toyboys|publisher=Belfast Telegraph|date=11 September 2012}}

Beacham was successfully treated for skin cancer in 2009. She had a recurrence of the disease in 2011 but again recovered.{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/stephanie-beacham-skin-cancer-returned-4003550 |title=Stephanie Beacham: My skin cancer returned but deafness had a bigger impact on my life |work=Daily Mirror|date=6 August 2014 }}

In March 2016, Beacham told The Sunday Telegraph that she had been raped when she had been an up-and-coming actress in her twenties.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/03/12/stephanie-beacham-exclusive-i-was-raped-in-the-seventie|title=Stephanie Beacham: Being raped screwed up my life|publisher=Telegraph Media Group|newspaper=The Sunday Telegraph|date=13 March 2016|access-date=13 March 2016}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

On 25 September 2022, Beacham was confronted by a burglar inside her London home who threatened her with a crowbar and stole items including her mobile phone, purse and jewellery before fleeing the property.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64733974|title=Dynasty star Stephanie Beacham struggled to learn lines after 'terrifying' raid|last=Warren|first=Jess|publisher=BBC|date=22 February 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/22/stephanie-beacham-hid-lavatory-hammer-wielding-burglar-ransacked/|title=Stephanie Beacham hid in lavatory while hammer-wielding burglar ransacked home|publisher=The Daily Telegraph|date=22 February 2023}}{{Cite web |last=Kirk |first=Tristan |date=2023-01-06 |title=Coronation Street star Stephanie Beacham 'face to face with burglar during hammer break-in at her London home' |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/stephanie-beacham-coronation-street-dynasty-actress-star-burglar-hammer-london-home-court-b1051289.html |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}} The offender, who had sixty-four previous convictions, was subsequently sentenced to ten years and five months in prison.{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-corrie-star-stephanie-beacham-28811766| title= Corrie star Stephanie Beacham 'confronted by hammer-wielding burglar' at home| last1=Woodcock|first1=Zara|last2=Delaney|first2=Zoe|date=6 January 2023| website=The Mirror| publisher=Reach PLC|access-date=7 January 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.celebretainment.com/celebrities/stephanie-beacham-confronted-by-hammer-wielding-burglar-in-break-in/article_c93d5f2e-d813-5423-8561-9d91042e9c3d.html|title=Stephanie Beacham 'confronted by hammer-wielding burglar in break-in'| last1=Celebretainment| first1=Staff writer|date=6 January 2023| website=Celebretainment| access-date=7 January 2023}}

• Many Lives, Hay House, 2011. {{ISBN|978-1-84850-829-3}}.

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