The children who attended Anna Scher’s theatre school in Islington, North London, founded in 1968, were generally working class, and with little intention of becoming actors or famous. In the ...

Anna Scher, pictured with Kathy Burke, won at The Sky Women In Film & Television Awards in 2011 "She had no place for racism or homophobia and if the kids expressed any of this you were out, no ...

The Anna Scher Theatre, which started as a drama club in 1968, was created to help get children off the streets. Soon, there were classes of more than 70, some as young as six paying 10p a session.

Anna Scher was born on December 26, 1944, and died, aged 78, on November 12. Her husband Verrall died in October this year. She is survived by her son, John. Read More.

By the mid-1970s the lunchtime drama club had evolved into the Anna Scher Theatre with its own premises, 1,000 students – largely from working-class backgrounds – and 5,000 on the waiting list.

The senior agent at InterTalent and former EastEnders actor on how she started out in the industry, her move to becoming an ...

Scher was widely known for championing young, working-class actors, and founded her school in London in 1968. "She was amazing, I wouldn't be where I am now if it wasn't for Anna," Cassidy told ...

Scores of children, taught by industry legend Anna Scher, who died last week aged 78, went on to become Britain’s biggest and brightest names in TV and film ...

EastEnders' Natalie Cassidy is among stars paying tribute to drama school founder Anna Scher, who has died at 78, having taught names including Daniel Kaluuya, Kathy Burke and Gary Kemp. Scher was ...