Kim Cattrall
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Cattrall was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, England Her mother, (Gladys) Shane, née Baugh, was a secretary, and her father, Dennis, a construction engineer. When she was 3 months old, her family emigrated to the Canadian city of Courtenay, British Columbia.
At 11, she returned to England when her grandmother became ill, and she took a number of acting examinations with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA),
before returning to Canada at age 16 to finish her final year of secondary school.
In August 2009, Cattrall took part in the BBC TV show Who Do You Think You Are? where she discovered some uncomfortable facts about her grandfather George Baugh. Baugh, who disappeared in 1938 having abandoned his family including Cattrall’s then 8-year-old mother and two younger sisters, turned out to have bigamously remarried to his new wife Isabella Oliver the following year in Tudhoe, County Durham, and he subsequently had another four children.
In 1961, he emigrated to Australia, where he became a postmaster, retiring in 1972 and died in 1974. Ms Cattrall’s mother and aunts had known nothing of their father’s life after he left until they heard what the Who Do You Think You Are researchers had discovered. Nor had the family previously seen a clear photograph of him.
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